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Originally Posted by Tnyorkiemom  they are a yorkie....just with the pie bald gene......they happened by accident and were not actually gonna be sold....but everyone seeing them started asking for pups and offerning a lot of money for them.....it is described as a gene mutation......and they are just starting to be recognized as a breed themselves....you can only get purebred puppies reg in germany right now....but both akc and ckc are considering it......our little smokey is the result of a standard yorkie mom and a biewer daddy.....hope this helps   |
Just to make a few little corrections here. I have never read that Mr. Biewer who developed this breed after showing Yorkies for years in Germany did it for money. He showed and bred Yorkies for over twenty years. He bought 2 pedigreed Yorkies (Blue and Tan marketings) and when they were bred in 1984, in the litter were Yorkies with white markings (piebald recessive gene). He was very intrigued by this and spent many years developing this breed so the marketings were stamped on this breed (white chest and belly, white legs and white on the tip of the tail - with a tri-colored face) through inbreeding and line breeding. In fact I doubt he sold many of these dogs so he could develop what we know as the Biewer Yorkshire Terrier. In 1989 the Biewers were recognized as a breed themselves through the German ACH and a standard was published. In 2003 the first Biewers were imported to the United States.
There are now registries in the US to register purebred Biewers as a number of clubs felt that DNA testing was very important. Many of these pups have dual registry (German and US) but it is important to document the litters through DNA in the US for the future of the Biewers.
It will probably be a long time before the AKC recognizes the Biewers through the FSS process or the Canadian Kennel Club. The FSS (
http://www.akc.org/breeds/fss_breeds.cfm) has very strong requirements before they will allow a rare breed to be recognized in the AKC.
There are two show venues that Biewer owners can show their dogs (The IABCA and the NAKC). A 3rd group was just added, ARBA but this just happened and a lot of controversy surrounds how the Biewers were brought in to this organization.
Time and patience is needed to see how this wonderful little dog will do in the US and Canada and thank goodness there are enough reputable breeders that understand this and will take the time to develop this dog.