Available$5,388–$5,988 · Bichon Frise x Poodle · AVS licence BR25052 · updated August 2026
Poochon: Both Parents Are on the HDB List
The Poochon, short answer: $5,388–$5,988 from an AVS-licensed farm, a Bichon Frise crossed with a Poodle, and both of those parent breeds are named on HDB’s list of 62. It weighs 4–8 kg grown and lives 12–15 years.
One caveat decides whether that argument holds for your dog, and it is in the next section rather than buried at the bottom.
Is a Poochon HDB-approved?
Both parent breeds are named on the list of 62. The Bichon Frise is on it and so is the Poodle, which is the same argument that puts the Cavapoo on this site’s approved side. The list names the Poodle in Toy and Miniature only, so ask which Poodle was used.
Why both parents matter
HDB approves breeds by name, and a cross has no name on that list. What a buyer can look at instead is whether the two parent breeds are on it, and for this cross they both are. The full HDB-approved breed list carries the Bichon Frise and the Poodle.
That is a materially better position than most poodle crosses are in. A Goldendoodle has a Golden Retriever behind it and a Cockapoo has a Cocker Spaniel, and neither of those is on the list at all, so neither cross has the argument available in the first place.
A condominium or landed home carries no breed restriction of this kind, so this whole question only decides matters for flat buyers. It just happens that most households here live in flats.
The Toy and Miniature caveat
Read the list closely and it does not say Poodle. It says Poodle in its Toy and Miniature sizes, and that is not the same thing.
- Out of a Toy or Miniature Poodle, both parents are named on the list.
- Out of a Standard Poodle it is not, and the argument above does not reach it.
- The question that settles it is one sentence long: which Poodle was the sire.
Nobody selling this cross tends to raise that, and a buyer who does not know the distinction exists will not think to ask. Ours are small-Poodle crosses and you are welcome to ask us the same question you should be asking anyone else.
Confirm your own dog against HDB’s own pet rules rather than resting on any seller’s reading of them, this one included.
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Poochon puppies available now
Price searches for this cross usually end at an enquiry form. Every puppy here carries its price on the card instead.
The 6 of them now at the farm are listed below, each with its own photo, age, colour and price. The price on the card is the price for that puppy.
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They are held at our AVS-licensed farm, licence BR25052, in the Sungei Tengah cluster, and you can come and meet one by appointment before anything is decided. Several of the current litters came in from abroad rather than being bred here, and we will tell you which is which for the puppy you are looking at.
The card price is the price
Not a starting point, and not a figure that moves once you are interested. Every puppy available this week sits on one page under the same rule.
What is a Poochon crossed with?
A Bichon Frise and a Poodle. Nothing else is in the mix, and a listing describing something more elaborate is describing a different cross.
Two named parents, one unnamed cross
Poochon or Bichpoo: the same dog
Bichpoo is the same cross under a different trade name, and neither name is more official than the other because neither is a recognised breed. If you are weighing a Poochon listing against a Bichpoo listing, compare the parents rather than the labels.
What each parent brings
The bichon side brings the temperament that sells this cross: cheerful, sociable, and genuinely fond of people rather than merely tolerant of them.
The poodle side brings the coat, the intelligence, and the adult size. That last one is worth holding on to, because it is the parent that decides how big the dog you are buying will actually get.
How big is a full grown Poochon?
Small. Our own breed record gives 4–8 kg as an adult, published as a range because a cross inherits a range rather than a size.
A recognised breed has a written standard behind it and varies within narrow limits. A cross has two standards pulling at it and lands somewhere between them, which is why any listing promising an exact adult weight is promising something the biology does not supply.
The two questions to ask
- Which Poodle was the sire, Toy, Miniature or Standard. It decides both the adult size and the housing argument.
- What do both parents weigh, and can you meet them. A photograph of a puppy tells you nothing about the adult.
Neither question is awkward to ask and neither should be awkward to answer. A seller who deflects on the first one is worth walking away from, whoever they are.
The coat: low shedding is not low maintenance
The low-shedding coat is what most people are buying, and it is the single biggest ongoing cost of owning this cross. Both of those things are true at once and pages about doodles tend to mention only the first.
What a curly coat does in this humidity
Brushing between grooms
Brush in sections, lifting the coat and working from the skin outwards, several times a week. Brushing over the top of a curly coat feels productive and leaves the layer underneath exactly as it was.
Dry the dog properly after a bath or rain, all the way to the skin. In this climate a towel-dried curly coat stays damp for hours, and damp is where matting starts.
Are Poochons high maintenance?
The coat is and the dog is not, and that distinction is worth keeping separate. You are taking on a standing grooming appointment for the life of the animal, plus the brushing between them.
What you get for it is a cheerful, biddable, genuinely easy small dog. Whether that is a fair trade is a question about your week rather than about the breed.
Tear staining on a light coat
Expect some, and expect it to show. Light coats make ordinary tear staining obvious in a way a dark coat hides, and it is cosmetic far more often than it is medical.
Keeping the face clean and dry helps and will not eliminate it. What warrants a vet is a change in the eye itself rather than the colour of the fur beneath it.
The first fortnight at home
The two weeks after a puppy arrives do more to set its adult behaviour than anything else you will do, and most of what goes wrong in them is predictable.
Before the puppy arrives
- Decide where it sleeps and where it toilets, and do not move either afterwards.
- Agree the house rules with everyone living there, including whether the sofa is allowed.
- Register with a vet before you need one rather than in the middle of a problem.
- Buy a slicker brush and a metal comb, and use the comb to check the brush actually worked.
The first few days
Expect a quiet dog for two or three days and then a much bolder one. The settled, cheerful animal you were shown at the farm reappears once the place stops being unfamiliar, and judging a puppy on its first evening tells you very little.
Keep visitors down in the first week. Everyone wants to meet the new puppy and a small dog meeting fifteen strangers in six days is being asked to cope with a great deal at once.
What the coat needs from day one
Start brushing before there is anything to brush out. A puppy coat rarely mats, which is exactly why it is the right time to teach the dog that being brushed is ordinary rather than an event.
The adult coat comes in somewhere between about eight months and a year, and it is denser than what you started with. Households that get caught out are usually the ones who found the puppy coat easy and did not adjust when it changed.
Is a Poochon a good dog?
In the right household, genuinely yes. It is cheerful, sociable, quick to learn, and small enough for the housing most people here actually live in.
That is a real answer rather than a polite one, and it comes with an equally real set of conditions attached.
Does a Poochon bark a lot?
Not typically. It is alert and it will announce a visitor, which is different from a small dog that barks at everything and cannot be talked down from it.
What turns an alert dog into a noisy one is usually boredom or too many hours alone. That is within your control in a way the breeding is not, which is both the good news and the responsibility.
Who this dog does not suit
- A household out from morning until night. This is a people-focused cross from a people-focused breed.
- Anyone who wants a low-effort dog. The coat is the effort and it does not go away.
- Anyone buying on the photograph without asking which Poodle is behind it.
If one of those describes your week, a different breed will serve you better and we would rather say so here than after the fact.
Puppy care in the first year
The first year sets most of what the next decade looks like, and with this cross three things matter more than the rest: the coat handling, the time alone, and the routine.
How to train one
Short sessions, often, and started early. This is a bright dog from two bright breeds, and the usual problem is not that it cannot learn but that it learns the wrong thing quickly when nobody is paying attention.
Housetraining goes the same way as with most small dogs. Pick the spot before the puppy arrives, do not move it, and accept that the first fortnight decides the pattern.
Teaching it to be handled
Handle the puppy all over from the week it arrives, feet and ears and muzzle included. A dog that has never been asked to stand still cannot be groomed at three without a fight, and with this coat the grooming is not optional.
How often should I groom my Poochon is the question underneath all of this. Professionally every six to eight weeks is the usual rhythm here, with brushing several times a week in between, and the humidity is what makes the in-between part non-negotiable.
Time alone, built up rather than assumed
Build up to time alone in small increments from the start rather than discovering the limit the first time you go out for a day. We are not going to publish a number of hours, because it depends on the individual dog and on what it has been taught.
Getting a Poochon into a household that is out from morning to night is the single most common mismatch we see with this cross, and it is one you can predict before you buy. Our breed directory marks which of our breeds are HDB-approved and how much company each of them wants.
Health: what each side brings
Two inheritances rather than one breed, which is the honest way to think about any cross. The bichon side is associated with skin sensitivity and allergies, and both sides carry eye conditions and luxating patella.
Naming those is not a prediction about your puppy. It is the list to raise with a breeder by name, rather than accepting a general assurance that the parents are healthy.
We are not going to tell you a cross is healthier than its parent breeds. It is the standard line on pages like this one, and no one can promise it about an individual puppy.
What is the life span of a Poochon?
Poochon lifespan is a fair thing to weigh before spending this much, and our own breed record gives 12–15 years.
Plan around the upper end rather than the lower. The households that struggle are usually the ones that budgeted, in time as much as money, for a shorter commitment than they got.
What to ask a breeder
- What were both parents screened for, named condition by named condition.
- Which Poodle was the sire, and what do both parents weigh.
- Can you see the mother with the litter, in the place they are kept.
- Is the seller licensed, and what is the licence number.
What a Poochon costs here, and what is included
Buying one here costs what the individual puppy costs, and ours are $5,388–$5,988. That is the range of the ones listed above rather than a headline figure, and it moves as the roster turns over.
What the price covers
- The vet health check, and vaccinations to date with deworming at each visit.
- Microchipping, health certification and ancestry records.
- The record booklet, with the dates written in it, handed over with the puppy.
Homecoming at about week 9
Core doses at weeks 6 and 8 on the farm, homecoming about a week after the second, and the third at week 12 with your own vet. An optional fourth at week 16 follows if your vet advises it. The vaccination schedule sets out the whole first year.
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Found a homeHow a Poochon compares with a Cavapoo
These are the two crosses on this site whose parent breeds are both named on the HDB list, so for housing purposes they stand on the same footing. What differs is the spaniel or bichon half and what it brings.
| Poochon | Cavapoo | |
|---|---|---|
| Non-poodle parent | Bichon Frise | Cavalier King Charles Spaniel |
| That parent on the HDB list | Yes | Yes |
| Poodle parent on the list | Toy and Miniature only | Toy and Miniature only |
| Adult size | 4–8 kg | 4–8 kg |
| Coat | Curlier, mats faster | Wavier, varies more |
If the housing question is what brought you here, either works and the Cavapoo page sets out that cross in the same detail. The Toy and Miniature caveat applies to both of them equally.
Where the information on this page comes from
- The puppies, the photographs and the prices: the live roster sheet, synced August 2026. Every card is a real puppy at the farm and the price on the card is the price. The range on this page is read from the site’s breed data, which is itself set from the listing rather than typed.
- The HDB answer: the 62-breed list published on our own HDB page, checked for this page. It names the Bichon Frise, and it names the Poodle in Toy and Miniature sizes. It does not name the cross itself, because it names breeds rather than crosses, which is exactly why this page talks about the parents. Confirm your own dog against HDB’s own pet rules, confirmed in a browser on 25 August 2026 since the host blocks automated requests.
- Adult size and lifespan: our own breed record, 4–8 kg and 12–15 years, published as ranges because a cross inherits a range rather than a size.
- The coat and tear staining: first-party, from raising this cross at the farm in this climate.
- Licensing: AVS. Our breeder licence is BR25052, checkable on the public register rather than something to take our word for.
- Puppy vaccination: the canonical weeks used across this site, core doses at weeks 6 and 8, homecoming at about week 9, the third at week 12 and an optional dose at week 16.
- What we deliberately do not do here: claim that HDB approves the Poochon, because it approves named breeds and a cross is not one; claim the cross is hypoallergenic or healthier than its parents; or name any competing seller, shop, forum or social account. Puppy Singapore is selling 6 of these and this page still tells you to ask us which Poodle is behind each one.
Roster synced August 2026. Information last checked 26 August 2026.
Poochons in Singapore, answered
Is a Poochon HDB-approved?
Both of its parent breeds are named on HDB’s list of 62, the Bichon Frise and the Poodle, which is the same argument that makes the Cavapoo suitable on this site. One caveat matters: the list names the Poodle in its Toy and Miniature sizes only, so one out of a Standard Poodle does not stand on the same ground. HDB approves named breeds rather than crosses, so confirm your specific dog with HDB rather than relying on any seller, us included.
What is a Poochon crossed with?
A Bichon Frise and a Poodle, and nothing else. Both of those breeds are named on the HDB list, which is unusual among the poodle crosses and is the reason this one is worth a flat-dweller’s time. If a listing describes anything more elaborate in the mix, it is describing a different dog.
Is a Poochon the same as a Bichpoo?
Yes, the same dog under two trade names. Neither is more official than the other, because neither is a recognised breed name. If you are comparing one listing against the other, you are comparing two of the same thing and should compare them on the parents rather than on the label.
How big is a full grown Poochon?
Small, and our own breed record gives 4–8 kg as an adult. The range follows the Poodle parent rather than the bichon, which is why the answer is a range rather than a number. Ask which Poodle was used and ask to meet both parents.
Does a Poochon bark a lot?
Not typically, though it is an alert little dog and will tell you when someone is at the door. What turns an alert dog into a noisy one is usually boredom or too much time alone rather than the cross itself, and that is within your control in a way the breeding is not.
Are Poochons high maintenance?
The coat is, the temperament is not. A curly coat in this humidity needs brushing between professional grooms, not only at them, and it mats against the skin if that slips. In exchange you get a cheerful, biddable small dog that is straightforward to live with.
Do Poochons shed?
Most shed very little, which is the appeal of every poodle cross, and coat type does vary across a cross. Low shedding is a claim about hair rather than about allergies. Whether a particular person reacts to a particular dog is something only time in the same room settles.
Is a Poochon a good dog?
In the right home, yes, and the right home here is a specific thing rather than a compliment. It suits a household that wants a small, cheerful, sociable companion, is around often enough that the dog is not alone all day, and will actually do the coat work. It suits a household out from morning to night considerably less well.
What is the life span of a Poochon?
Our own breed record gives 12–15 years. That is a long commitment for a small dog, and it is worth reading as the real question behind the purchase rather than as a selling point.
Do Poochons get tear stains?
Often, and on a light coat they show. It is usually cosmetic rather than a sign of illness, and it is worth knowing before you see it and worry. Keeping the face clean and dry helps. A sudden change in the eyes themselves, rather than the staining, is what warrants a vet.
How much is a Poochon puppy in Singapore?
Ours are $5,388–$5,988, which is the range of the puppies listed on this page rather than a headline figure. That price includes the vet health check, vaccinations to date, deworming, microchipping, health certification and ancestry records. The price on each card is the price for that puppy.
When can a Poochon puppy come home?
At about week 9. Core vaccinations are given at weeks 6 and 8 at the farm, with deworming at each visit, and homecoming follows about a week after the second dose. The third is due at week 12 with your own vet, and an optional fourth at week 16 if your vet advises it.