My boys get winter cuts and summer cuts. In about Sept & Dec they get winter cuts. In March/April & July they get summer cuts, 4 grooms a year. A winter cut is a typical puppy cut. A summer cut is a shave! I want their hair as GONE as possible in the summer months. They wear life jackets and swim in the pool so much I don't want them to have hair, it tangles and they smell more like wet dogs all the time with too much hair in the summer.
Fletch has a beautiful coat and I could grow it out. He LOVES to be brushed and will lay in my lap as soon as I get the brush. I could grow his coat out, but he's an active boy for the most part, so I just get it clipped short. Dexter has a cotton coat that mats horribly. He HATES being brushed and I honestly could not deal with it anymore. I just love their round faces, shaved bodies and tipped ears. Too cute for words!