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Originally Posted by dianaww   So do I understand this right, that Partis and biewers are the same. The same
" fault " GENE in them both. Or are they any genetic codes that are not the same?
I think they are beautiful, but I do not agree that they should be so much more expensive than a standard yorkie.
It is an many of you have same IMHO exploiting a fault for money.
My Teddy has floppy ears, and I would not of bread from him. I love him like that, BUT I know it isn't correct, and so I wouldn't of breed him at all, in the hope I got floppy ears as puppies.
Thank goodness he has got floppy ears and I didn't breed him, as he now has heart problems, that can be inherited, so a blessing that I had him " done " before I knew that.
Getting back to the point. Are there any differences at all genetically with Partis, and Biewers.
How did these " fault " first appear, as white in the coat, and then they kept breeding those with the whiter coats?
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I guess you'll get lots of different opinions on this, my view is that Partis and Biewers are different, and I'm personally opposed to people breeding the two together, and selling them for whatever they can market them for. Biewers may (or may not) have started out Parti's, but Mr. Biewer took it a step further, and began interbreeding these dogs, he has a purpose and a goal in mind, and seemed to have a real vision for what he thought was a new breed. Another thing, many people have noted is that the personalities of the Biewers seem much different than the traditional yorkie, and many people say that the Biewer is a much mellower type of dog. I think many people don't understand that scientists have not cracked the genetic code yet, it's a very painstaking process, just the fact that a single dog has billions of bases, building blocks of the genome, and these DNA labs only look at a few hundred makes me think it will be several years before we have any real understanding of breed differences.