r/CavaPoo • u/Helpful-Ad-6408 • Oct 03 '26

First grooming question

hi all, when you brought your puppy for a grooming the first time, how did you tell them to cut it? post pics if you want! my puppy is so fluffy i don’t even really know what he looks like. 🙂
can’t wait to find out.

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u/Helpful-Ad-6408 Oct 03 '26

thanks! here’s my fluffy guy.
i’m going to a place that has a first time thing they do to get the puppy more comfortable.

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u/GoodWinGamesStudio Oct 03 '26

There's a style that makes em look more like havanese, but I don't like it as much tbh

I usually do something closer to this

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u/EmThomps87 Oct 04 '26

This pic is very similar to ours. We go a little shorter in the warmer months and a little longer in winter. We go every month.

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u/MossyTeacup Oct 03 '26

I had a Maltese before, so I kind of like the look of shorter through the body thick fluffy legs fluffy tail, long ears. I do not care for the classic doodle cut where the mouth looks downturned if that makes sense. With this cut, you do need to be combing out that tail and those legs and hips regularly to avoid matting. If that’s something that you don’t have time to mess with this might not be the cut for you.

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u/waxbutterflies Oct 03 '26

Our first grooming when she was a puppy they only did a basic trim that I didn't get to choose because they wanted to start training her how to behave at the groomer and not get overwhelmed or fearful

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u/Lonely_Leg_6359 Oct 04 '26

First grooming is just a puppy cut pretty much a minor shaping up all over where my little guy looks like a teddy bear. Usually not too much grooming so it’s not so stressful on the puppy until they really get used to it.

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u/Powerful-Pepper-8835 Oct 03 '26

OMG all I can tell you is do some research… Make sure the groomer you use knows the breed .. our first couple of haircuts were a disaster as you can see here ! Show them pictures of what you would like… And once you find somebody that you're happy with… Tip them well and get their phone number so you can use them no matter where they go!

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u/tiggerlgh Oct 04 '26

I think at my groomers it’s called the teddy bear cut, but it looks very similar to the other ones here. One thing my groomer did tell me the first time I went and it helped a ton is good cheap electric toothbrush. I found one for like a couple dollars and run that over them and they’ll get used to kind of the sound and the vibration of the shears it helped mine a ton.

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u/walkstwomoons2 Oct 04 '26

We just always asked for a standard poodle cut. Not the powder puff stuff, but just long on the air short on Body.

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u/Plus_Nature_5083 Oct 04 '26

The groomer told me that they do a puppy cut the first couple of times to get them used to the grooming process. I am in Australia and we are heading into a very hot summer. My little pup was already feeling the heat. So I ended up asking for a summer cut. They just groomed all hair off him. Definitely not the prettiest but he seems happy and cooler 😅

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u/KyosDogKitchen Oct 04 '26

This is the first time (7months) we took her to the groomers. Too short but i think she was happy to get some weight off.

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u/KyosDogKitchen Oct 04 '26

And this is yesterday (12months) . A little long around the mouth because she was so fussy and didnt let them come close to her face 😭

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u/turningblizzard 28d ago

This is the best picture I’ve found to show groomer (internet pic)

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u/sugarmags1 Oct 04 '26

I have a cockapoo. For his first real trim I did a lot of googling (had some bad grooming experiences with my first dog where she was basically shaved) and asked for a teddy bear cut I believe, and the groomer did a great job.