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Originally Posted by GreenwoodBiewer  I beleive that the Biewer Yorkies and Parti Yorkies are exactly the same dog.. they are both just a tri colored Yorkshire Terrier.. just a plain old every day yorkshire terrier with a color variation caused by a recessive gene.. that simple.. the German ones just bark with a slight accent.
If you don't dock the Parti tails.. they would also have a tail.. imagine! If you breed two Parti yorkies that have the Irish spotting pattern together instead of ones that have the Piebald gene together.. you would start getting the same patterning that is in the Biewer standard instead of the random patterning created by the Piebald gene.. I believe Mr. Biewer saw that and bred accordingly. I have a Parti that looks exactly like my Biewers.. down to the white tip at the end of his undocked tail.
You maynot agree.. but give yourselves some time.. I bet you'll get here eventually... but I'm not going to argue with you if you don't.
Diana  |
That is the way I would have described it also.
The Biewer are a separate breed only because the German registries allowed them to call themelves a separate breed. The AKC does not recognize them as a separate breed, nor do they allow them to be registered as yorkies because their parents are not registered as yorkies.
I think The parti colored yorkies can be registered with APRI and shown in their shows, they just cannot be shown at AKC shows because the parti color is considered a fault.
But if you leave out the registries, and go with the genetics, they are all tri colored yorkies. Biewers have a color standard, but I imagine there are Biewers born that do not meet that standard, just as there are traditional colored yorkies born that do not meet the standard.