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Originally Posted by FlDebra  I mean comparing the original Biewers with some of what are being sold as Parti's now, there are drastic physical differences. For instance.... Mr. Biewer bred his tri-color yorkies to have white bellies and four white paws. The standard for Biewer includes: "The head must have three colors; blue/black, white and gold in good symmetry. The belly, chest, legs and the tip of the tail is white. Full tail. The back is black/blue or black/blue with white in it. The hair is silky, not curly. "
Taking a look through many of the sites selling partis today and you will not see anything close to that -- no consistency. I just went to the very first entry that came up on a bing search for parti yorkies for sale: Female Parti Yorkies, puppies for sale in OK. Take a look at the male & female part yorkies -- most of them do not have 3 colors on their head, not a lot of symetry, brown on feet, and one appears to only have 2 colors. Just compare "Cart's Parti Tyme Paris" to one of Mr. Biewer's dogs! There are drstic differences. I went to the second one that came up on the search Female Yorkshire Terriers and Female Parti yorkies -- again, the dogs being shown as parti's do not look anything like the beautiful dogs that Mr. Biewer bred. "Maggie" for instance is drastically different from Mr. Biewer's dogs, and doesn't have much of the "yorkie look." Let's go to the third kennel on the search result: Yorkshire Terriers, Parti Yorkies, Chocolate Yorkies, Golden Yorkies,Dogs and Puppies for Sale. These puppies are losing the yorkie look. The face, the head shape, the coloring -- not at all what Mr. Biewer had in mind, I don't think.
These are not at all the worst or the most drastically different that I have seen -- some do not even look like they have yorkie in them anymore. But I did not want to look for the worst case scenario -- instead I went with the first three on a search engine result -- that way it is completely unbiased.
I have read that there is a parti standard and that it is the same as the yorkie with the exception of color which is two or more colors, one of which is white. I have also read there is no standard for the parti. Since the Biewer require 3 color and give specific markings, the "standard" given on some parti sites is not at all the same. So, little wonder they would be drastically different. If there is no standard, then again, that does not lead breeding toward any particular goal so again, no wonder they are so different than Mr. Biewer's carefully planned results. |
First off the original Biewer standard has been changed several times. Once the Biewers hit the United States is when all the changing of the names and standards took place. The 3 color standard was not Mr. Biewers standard. He named them Biewer Yorkshire A LA Pom Pon.
Isnt it funny how in the Biewers, that in the same litter of puppies they can be registered differently. The tri color pups are registered as a biewer and the traditional colors are registered as yorkshire terriers. They both have the same parents and were born in the same litter, so now tell me how they can be separate breeds???
The parti and the biewer are yorkies, the color on their head turns tan/ gold as they get older just as the yorkie does. Now as to how light or dark the tan/gold is, well thats breeding. Alot of show people dye their yorkies in order to have that perfect color.
There are bad breeders in every breed of dog.
There are yorkies that don't look like yorkies posted all over puppy find, actually its the same in any breed.
This is a Biewer in the first picture, does he look like the dogs in the 2nd photo of Mr Biewer with his dogs.
The 3rd photo is a Biewer and the last photo is Parti yorkies.
Wonder which ones look more like Mr Biewers dogs.