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Originally Posted by GreenwoodBiewer  Deb,
You are correct, not all German breeders breed back to yorkies, you are also correct that breeding to a parti yorkie or a standard colored yorkie is diluting the biewer gene.. that is the whole idea.. to bring in some health to the genes of the Biewers as (in my opinion) they were to closely inbred without the proper steps taken to remove the unwanted "issues" from the breed.. the Parti's were also very inbred, but it was done by people that knew what they were doing and they removed the dogs from the breeding populations that had genetic problems and did not just keep breeding them just to get the color. Where Mr. Biewer focused on setting a specific LOOK, I believe the Parti's concentrated more on health first.. now they are working on the outer appearance.
In the world of dogs.. 26 years is nothing.. does the AKC accept a dog as a new breed just because it is bred "true" for that amount of time??? Would they consider the Biewer a Breed of it's own?? I have yet to hear anyone show me HOW just time alone and just breeding color back to color and setting type can make a new breed. I understand how you would want that to be the case, but I just don't see that it is. If you bred Parti's just with Parti's long enough.. are you saying THEY would also be a seperate breed???
Diana  |
For proof on how this can happen...look no further then the Basenji. The Basenji Club of America has had to petition the AKC to re-open the stud book TWICE...so they could breed back to the African dogs not registered..just to save the breed from extinction from the massive inbreeding done in England and the States.
This will soon be a big problem for the Biewer as well. But IMO...it already is.