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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  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. |
How much have you studied the Crownridge Parti's. She was one of the breeders who proved to the AKC these dogs were Yorkies. Her dogs all look alike as she has put her mark on her dogs.
Mr. Biewer believed they were Yorkies and in fact tried to show them as Yorkies but he was not allowed to so he went to another registry so he could go into the showring. We also will never really know what Mr. Biewer wanted as after he passed his wife got rid of all the dogs and his notes. He also sold these dogs to other breeders with very few restrictions and it does not appear that he really protected this breed. One club is now pulling Mrs. Biewer out as an expert when you can't find any pictures of her showing the dogs. You can see pictures of her holding them in staged pictures but that does not mean she is an expert and why did she get rid of the dogs after he died if she was so involved. How many breeders here that are married, is the other spouse involved?
It also has been noted in some of the other breeds that accept the Piebald that this gene makes the dogs a little more mellow.
I do agree we won't know for a long time the genetic makeup of these dogs but we won't for the Yorkies either.