[MyFairLacy]

Originally Posted by hha

It's very confusing, as if these biewers are from 2 purebred yorkies, then they are infact yorkies, but with different coloring..I feel that maybe a maltese somehow comes in to the picture, if you look at my Fritz(biewer), he has a lot of maltese resemblence, even down to the maltese proud prance.

we know the maltese was used in creating the Yorkshire Terrior..it's how they got the long silky coat as opposed to a shorter coarser coat of the terriers used to make a yorkie. Yorkies and Maltese look a whole lot alike as a whole. But a maltese doesn't carry a parti gene. The controversy over parti yorkies is whether or not they are purebred yorkies or if a parti-colored breed such as a shihtzu was introduced way back in a line. A Biewer may or may not have been produced from two purebred yorkshire terriers...my thoughts are there was a parti-colored breed somewhere back in the lines..but no one really knows. Like I said, I'd love for a geneticist to solve the issue once and for all.

I do know the Biewer breed has been determined to be genetically different from the Yorkshire Terrier breed and has been accepted in the ARBA