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Originally Posted by delicatepuzzle  Please don't take this meanly (because I'm just wondering), but what makes you think that this little guy/girl is a parti? From looks no this is not a parti. A parti is half biewer and half yorkie. Parti's come out looking biewer. Parti-carriers come out looking like regular yorkies. Although my opinion is that "parti's" are mutts. There is NOTHING WRONG with MUTTS. It just blows my mind that people think they can slap a HUGE price on a mix breed and call it "designer". HMRPH!!! But that's just me I love them all the same (not so much in love with the INSANE prices thou, ie $4000). LOL |
First, a parti is not half biewer and half yorkie, that cross would be what the Biewer world calls a "splitter". Splitters are traditional colored but carry the spotting gene from their Biewer colored parent.
A parti (AKC registered) is all yorkie. Parti color has appeared in our breed since the beginning of the breed. Even though traditional colored dogs with unknown heritage were used to start this breed, it was the hidden recessive genes they harbored that are still being passed on in our dogs today.
Ernest Hemmingway's grandfather, owned a white yorkshire terrier named Tassel in the early 1900's; well known and highly respected old time breeders from the 1920's-1980's, had parti color showing up in their litters (some lines more often than others). Today, Parti color continues to appear in litters from 2 traditional colored parents, surprising their unsuspecting owners (the parents both carrying the recessive parti gene).
If you consider parti colored yorkies as "Mutts" or "Designer breeds", they are no more a mutt than their traditional colored parents, siblings and previous standard colored generations are. Parti's are considered "off color" but so is the silvery blue and tan yorkie and the black and gold yorkie - yet those 2 colors are not considered mutts?
It's all in the genes and in some cases lack of genes, that make up the colors we see in our yorkies.