This can vary especially between the generations and breeds. Australian Shepherds and Poodles both carry the long hair gene (FGF5) which is a recessive gene. Since they both carry it all aussiedoodles regardless of generation are going to have long coats. This alone will require brushing and shaving . Keeping the coat short will help minimize some of the grooming. Most F1 Aussiedoodles will have one furnishing gene, two long hair genes, one curl gene, and if you are lucky (depending on the poodle) one low shedding gene. This combination requires regular brushing just like you do to help get the loose hairs out as new hair grows to prevent matting. Can you imagine if you didn't brush your hair (or you kid(')s(')) every day? Again, keeping a nice short cut is the best solution in my opinion. You can easily go about three months between cuts. Now when you move into an F1b cross that has two furnishing genes (remember not all F1b's will get two!) You will have a coat more similar to a poodle especially if you also get two curl genes. The curly (instead of just wavy) hair will tangle more and prevent hair from naturally shedding. This will give you the illusion that they shed less when in reality the hair is caught in the coat. The double furnishing gene helps to creat even more "fluff" which also increases chances of matting if regular brushing is not maintained. Again, in my opinion a nice short coat (up to an inch or so, even shorter in warm weather) is the best way to handle these coats. You can request longer hair on the head (such as the teddy bear cut) and you would have to brush that area (especially around the ears). Mentioning ears...don't forget to clean them! I don't recommend having the hairs plucked from the ears because that can cause an infection. You should have a simple ear cleanser on hand that you can squirt in the ears weekly and give a quick rub. It is good to ask the groomer to shave the underside of the ears to help with airflow.

After all that I still need to talk about corgipoos! As you probably know, corgis have short coats. The gene for long coats is recessive. So what happens in a first generation (F1) cross of a corgipoo is each pup gets one long coat gene from the poodle and a short coat gene from the corgi. The corgipoos in this cross will have shorter or "whisper" coats than an aussiedoodle. This actually makes the coat so much easier to care for! My F1 corgipoos don't require shaving (unless I want that look) and need very little brushing. They still have the furnishing gene, one curl gene, and a low shedding gene which all help reduce shedding.  Now to get a really fluffy corgipoo we can breed an F1 corgipoo to a poodle and roughly half of those will get two long hair genes. Some of those may even get two furnishing genes. What is another way to get a fluffy corgipoo? Well, get a fluffy (long hair) corgi! Of course you could also use a corgi that only carries the long hair gene but you wouldn't know for sure without doing a genetic test. My plan is to bring in a long hair corgi in the future to have long hair F1 corgipoos. It is nice having the short hair though when it comes to grooming!