A Poodle is advertised as the clever, elegant, low-shedding answer. The advertisement is half true. They are clever. The coat does not carpet a house the way a Golden's does. Someone still has to cut it, brush it, and stop it becoming a felted opinion, and the dog inside the haircut still needs a job.
The haircut is a bill you can see. The brains are the bill that surprises people in March.