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She found her puppy Stevie - a Schnauzer-poodle mix known as a Schnoodle - at the end of December.

Simply put, grooming your own dog is never easy, even armed with an expensive clipper and a blade that won’t shear your schnoodle as if she were a sheep.

Mr. Brock, 53, divides his time between Washington and the West Village in Manhattan, throwing lively salons and wooing liberal donors on both coasts, often accompanied by Toby, his schnoodle — a schnauzer-poodle mix.

“Clipped is too fussy for us,” said Mr. Hollander, who shares the modest quarter-acre plot with his wife, Wendy Powers, their teenage daughter, Renata, and Freddy, a rescued schnoodle.

Her black schnoodle, Walter, is lying by her side.