Hi Shalynn!
Your boy looks like a sweetheart!! To answer your question about the "fluffies" - that comes from using a velocity or force hair dryer. These are not the hairdryers humans use - they blow air at a much higher velocity and actually blow the water off of the coat instead of drying it with heat. When the coat is blown so forcefully, it helps the hair stay straight instead of curly - and it's the straight hair which causes the fluffiness we love in our poodles.
Mannie does have a very short topknot (and a long beard!!) :lol: All that will help with that is the time it takes for it to grow out more - if that's what you want.
Have you been grooming him yourself or taking him to a professional dog groomer?? The reason I ask is because it seems that his feet are shaved awfully "high" up onto his ankles. When I shave my Lucybug's feet, I'm careful not to go too high or it looks like "highwater" pants!
I only shave the FOOT itself and do not go to the ankle at all. Basically just the toes and a smidge beyond and then stop.
If you hang around the forum long enough you will learn many, many great new techniques and ideas that are specific to our wonderful poodles. Someday I will have a simple clip on my 6 1/2 month old Lucy, but this is what she looks like now...
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Edited to add: I went back and looked at your pictures a little closer and found a couple more hints to help him look more like what a poodle should look like... He is shaved too high on his face, too - My breeder has been very helpful in helping me understand that when I shave Lucy's face to never shave higher on her nose than right between the inside corners of her eyes - so JUST to the imaginary line that runs between the inside corners of her eyes then stop...Nothing should be shaved above the eyes at all (if you want the topknot to look "right")
A friend of mine adopted a rescue standard poodle that my family was fostering a little over a year ago and they really like to keep his clip simple and short. I babysit Dolce from time-to-time and I see that they do clip above his eyes and it really looks a little wonky. We LOVE Dolce any way he looks - but he really doesn't have the flair of a lot of standard poodles who are groomed more to the standard of the breed. (we never tell him he looks funny, though!) LOL!
The other thing I noticed in his pictures is that his shaved tail area is quite long - If you look at my picture of Lucybug, you'll see that the shaved part of her tail is only a couple of inches (and the groomer told me I had been shaving a little too much when I had been doing it so we're bringing that line down a little... Ooops! )
Mannie looks like a handsome man no matter what, and I can see that his human children love him! These are just some things that I've learned by being a new poodle momma (we've only had Lucy for 4 1/2 months!) and keeping in close contact with my breeder - who used to be a professional groomer; and by asking lots of questions on this forum (and reading the answers to the questions I had forgotton to ask!)
Have a great weekend!
Your boy looks like a sweetheart!! To answer your question about the "fluffies" - that comes from using a velocity or force hair dryer. These are not the hairdryers humans use - they blow air at a much higher velocity and actually blow the water off of the coat instead of drying it with heat. When the coat is blown so forcefully, it helps the hair stay straight instead of curly - and it's the straight hair which causes the fluffiness we love in our poodles.
Mannie does have a very short topknot (and a long beard!!) :lol: All that will help with that is the time it takes for it to grow out more - if that's what you want.
Have you been grooming him yourself or taking him to a professional dog groomer?? The reason I ask is because it seems that his feet are shaved awfully "high" up onto his ankles. When I shave my Lucybug's feet, I'm careful not to go too high or it looks like "highwater" pants!
I only shave the FOOT itself and do not go to the ankle at all. Basically just the toes and a smidge beyond and then stop.If you hang around the forum long enough you will learn many, many great new techniques and ideas that are specific to our wonderful poodles. Someday I will have a simple clip on my 6 1/2 month old Lucy, but this is what she looks like now...
Edited to add: I went back and looked at your pictures a little closer and found a couple more hints to help him look more like what a poodle should look like... He is shaved too high on his face, too - My breeder has been very helpful in helping me understand that when I shave Lucy's face to never shave higher on her nose than right between the inside corners of her eyes - so JUST to the imaginary line that runs between the inside corners of her eyes then stop...Nothing should be shaved above the eyes at all (if you want the topknot to look "right")
A friend of mine adopted a rescue standard poodle that my family was fostering a little over a year ago and they really like to keep his clip simple and short. I babysit Dolce from time-to-time and I see that they do clip above his eyes and it really looks a little wonky. We LOVE Dolce any way he looks - but he really doesn't have the flair of a lot of standard poodles who are groomed more to the standard of the breed. (we never tell him he looks funny, though!) LOL!
The other thing I noticed in his pictures is that his shaved tail area is quite long - If you look at my picture of Lucybug, you'll see that the shaved part of her tail is only a couple of inches (and the groomer told me I had been shaving a little too much when I had been doing it so we're bringing that line down a little... Ooops!
)Mannie looks like a handsome man no matter what, and I can see that his human children love him! These are just some things that I've learned by being a new poodle momma (we've only had Lucy for 4 1/2 months!) and keeping in close contact with my breeder - who used to be a professional groomer; and by asking lots of questions on this forum (and reading the answers to the questions I had forgotton to ask!)
Have a great weekend!
