My hubby was convinced that a toy poodle was for us when he saw how intelligent one was in person... we went to a bbq and one of his mates took his new toy poodle puppy along.
My hubby's mate wouldn't stop going on about how smart and cool he was. He was also super cute so I was already swayed :)
Best thing we ever did and now I am looking at showing miniature poodles in the future :)