Ricki I think youve been gravely misinformed
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The Biewer Yorkie originated in Germany in 1984 and was a piebald genetic recessive gene occurrence offspring produced by Gertrude and Werner Biewer's Yorkshire Terriers. The sire and dam of the first recognized Biewer Yorkie were "Darling of Friedheck" and "Frufru of Friefieck".
The Biewer's saw the little dog with it's white markings as extraordinarily attractive and began the selective breeding process to produce more. The Briewer's named these little dogs with their white markings "Biewer Yorkshire a la Pom Pon". Thus the beginning of the Biewer Yorkies as we know them today.
The first German Biewer Yorkshire club was established in May 24, 2003. The Biewer Yorkie was recognized as a breed unto itself long before this date though when the general public recognized it unofficially as a breed.
The Biewer Yorkshire is bred, registered and shown in other countries and is on the top of the popularity list for the United States. Few registries in the United States as of this date have acknowledge the Biewer Yorkshire as a breed. The American Canine Registry is one of the few and the first United States known registry that does recognize the Biewer as a breed and is helping to promote the breed in the United States and throughout the world by the breed name of "Biewer Yorkie". The American Canine Registry formed the Biewer Yorkie Association on May 15, 2003 preparing to set in place breed standards and other club necessities and applied for recognition in 2004.
The Biewer Yorkie was originally a piebald genetic recessive gene occurrence from 2 Yorkshire Terriers but unscrupulous breeders have tried to match the look of the Biewer Yorkshire by crossing the Yorkshire Terrier and the Shih-Tzu. The crossing will produce the parti/piebald/white markings from the Shih-Tzu influence after the second generation but these crossbred dogs would take generations before they would produce the hair coat and the facial features seen in the Biewer Yorkshire. If the dog being presented to you as a Biewer Yorkshire has very wavy and/or course hair, or the facial features or body style of the Shih-Tzu then it's highly unlikely that it is a true purebred Biewer Yorkie.
The Biewer Yorkie Association is the first and only known United States Biewer Yorkie Club that formed in order to promote, educate, document, register and propagate the Piebald patterned Yorkie in the United States by starting a foundation registry by which verifiable, pedigreed & purebred Yorkshire Terriers, Biewer Yorkies and Tri-Color Yorkies may be bred together to produce the Piebald Patterned Yorkies through F1-F2 crosses and their Linage documented for the purpose of receiving full recognition through ACR.
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