I have recently moved and my new home has a couple of mature boxwoods plopped in the oddest locations. My first thought was to remove them, but now I am thinking that it would be fun to attempt animal-shape topiaries.

However, in exploring this site, it sounds like most topiaries are started when the shrub is small, and grown into cages to create the shapes. Is it possible to transform a mature boxwood into topiary?

I hope my questions are not too "dumb" :-) thanks for any help...