They are allowed to be shown in the puppy cut up until 12 months then they need to be in one of the other cuts (I don't know their names though) with the pom-poms on them. I would like to do it once, maybe I will and not tell my husband until he comes home to find her...poodlized . Yes, I sort of made my own word there when I typed poodlized but the definition is to make one look like a poodle.