I'm as curious as Delightful is Jan, as to the outcome of your 1st and 2nd generations in your breeding program. As for you not wanting to show with ARBA because of the allowing of 2 colors in the head is your purgative. I myself am more worried about health and structure problems. I've seen many dogs in the NACK and IABCA ring with 2 colors in the head, roach backs, colors (black and brown) coming down the leg (sometimes 2 or 3 legs), and longer bodies, none of which are in the standard your club uses that Donna and Christine wrote, not Mr. Biewer.
You say "BBCA, BBCC ,and the BYTNCA have chosen to be very selective while working towards producing progeny with a tri colored head". The BYTNC breeds Yorkies and Biewers together and now you're saying this is OK to get the 3 colors in the head?
I'm curious why the importance of head coloring has superseded the importance of breeding healthy dogs? You yourself contacted a breeder that was selling the same lines that your girl with L.S. came from and explained your heartbreak and how could she put others through this. You then had a few choice words for her and her breeding program. A few other members of the BBCI have expressed their opinions about anyone that would knowingly breed these lines and how they were just in it for the money, etc.........Why has this opinion all the sudden changed? Is it because of the money? How many cases of L.S. have we seen in the last couple of years?
Diane Klimb wrote a very interesting article last year in the ShowSight magazine called Liver and Onions which I have been given permission to post. We have been very busy getting health testing line up for our dogs when the DNA profiling is done and organizing another genetic study on coat color and sizing, that we just haven't had time to post it. Hopefully we will have it posted on the BTCA, Inc. sight by tonight, so check
Biewer Terrier Club of America, Inc. periodically to see if it's up.