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Originally Posted by Toby'sMama  Just to clear up some misconceptions here... although I am not familiar with what the BYA stands for -- in order to draw your own conclusions, you should go to their site and read...
You will find many people who say the IBC is the only acceptable registry. Number one... the IBC is NOT a registry -- it is a Biewer Club. There are many registries in Germany that accept the Biewer Yorkshire Terrier, and they all acknowledge and accept each other's registry. There are registries in the U.S. as well, which have been started to "register" the Biewers that are born in the U.S., in order to keep track of the lines here. Out of the five Biewer Clubs in the U.S., four of them have started registries, and I'm sure these Clubs do not feel it's a "worthless" piece of paper. When a new breed is starting out in a new country, it's important to keep track of bloodlines. Isn't this what happened when the Yorkshire Terrier came to the United States? In order to get breed acceptance, there must be records kept.
I know that the BNR has been validated by both the IABCA and the NAKC and are allowed to show using this registry. These are the only show venues that the Biewers are allowed to show in in the United States at this time.
For the Original Poster, I would suggest you check out a couple of great club websites and do some further research if you have any concerns... www.bytnc.org and www.biewerbci.org |
I believe I did say that the IBC is a CLUB. (like AKC is more than just a registry, it is a club!) I still believe that the Biewers need to be registered in GERMANY until they are accepted by AKC. The IBC will NOT honor US born dogs not registered with them, so you cannot say that the German registries all honor the other registries. (Yes, some of the German registries are just that, they are not clubs) People looking into purchasing a Biewer need to know these facts. I do know that the IABCA and NAKC are accepting the American registries, but I have also been told that I could start my own Biewer registry and they would accept that too. Now tell me what good would the KMTBR be to anyone??? Yes, we need to keep track of our lineages, but to say that the American registries are the way to go is also misleading people. The registries here in the US are basically for one purpose only, To obtain the needed information to gain AKC acceptance.
I have also been told, but not tried it out yet that ACA, UABR, and APRI will allow the Biewers to be shown (by representatives of these clubs)
There are several Biewer clubs here in the US and I have sent people to all of the different web pages, whether I agree with them or not. There are people here on YT that can verify that I have sent them web addresses for the different clubs. Each person needs to decide for themself if they want to even belong to a club and if so which one. Sad to say that because of the bickering they could probably belong to only one club and not have multiple memberships. I can see that you are biased as you only put 2 of the addresses down for the US clubs. What about letting them check out the other ones too?
http://biewer-btca.com/ http://www.geocities.com/bieweryorkieassociation/
People need to take note of the members' lists on the clubs' sites. I did belong to one of the clubs that Toby'sMama gave, but their membership has been rapidly dropping. I would not belong to a club that changed its rules to suit the president, treated members unfairly, and were dishonest. That is not how I wanted to be known, so I could not stay a member with a clear conscience. I chose to not belong to any group, but I have been searching for a US Biewer club that will be honest and treat its members with respect.