That picture was taken on the day we cut him down after he finished his Championship (we only show our dogs in local shows-although against the same dogs, handlers, and to the same judges you see on the TV shows and have never specialed a dog or used a professional handler). We ended up shortening him some more that day. Pam leaves the hair on the head and tail shaggy, although she might shorten it some, and clips the body pretty short. The place where most groomers have trouble with the Havanese is that they want to taper the legs. Pam scissors the leg hair and a lot of times it's longer than the body hair. She pulls it out between her fingers and cuts it with scissors the same length for the length of the leg, except for the feet of course. Notice the two pictures of Keeper in the gallery. The one with the puppy cut looks really curly where the one with show coat does not. Once the weight of the length is off, the Havanese wavy hair will show a lot more crimp. Even Keepers dad Shooby, who has almost straight hair at show length, looks a lot like the Keeper puppy cut picture. I looked but we don't really have any good pictures of a puppy cut.
