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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  Again, I don't think the words biewer and parti should be interchanged like they so often are. While parti can be registered, they are not registered as a parti but as a Yorkshire terrier. Any dog is eligible to be registered as long as his parents were registered with breeding rights, and that privilege hasn't been taken from the breeder. Many dogs that are registered don't meet standard, because breeders continue to breed dogs who don't meet standard.
It is not clear if the OP dogs were biewer or regular yorkies with the piebald gene. He said that he has "visited" the biewer site, which I took to mean that because some of the pups were multicolored he thought they were biewers. I have been trying to say that there is a great deal of difference.
Biewer breeders are trying to develop their own classification with the AKC with strict coloration standards. A biewer pup can cost around $3000.00, partis on the other hand, are just regular yorkshire terriers whose colors do not meet standard. Unethical breeders try to dupe the public into paying more for them because of their obvious similarity with biewers. |
I don't even think that the "public", for the most part, has even heard of the Biewer...so how would this be a selling point for any breeder of the parti color??
