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Originally Posted by yorluvr Personally, I would think that Biewer breeders would want to establish their own breed. This is not done overnight. The German Biewer has been bred to become it's own breed, separate from the yorkie. What I do not understand is why some American breeders think they can cross a yorkie and a biewer and still own a yorkshire terrier? It seems that most of the crosses are exactly that CROSS BREEDS, or tri-colors. Not bred as a true Biewer. If a breeder had purchased a true Biewer from the German lines, and can't imagine that they would want to "contaminate" what Mr. Biewer worked so hard to develop?
Cher made a good point that the YTCA controls the standard of the Yorkshire Terrier, not the AKC. I for one, am in favor to make a disqualification in our standard for any dog with primarily white in its coat. This would exclude these tri-color dogs from ever being shown in AKC events. I saw where a tri color was shown at the "International" show. These shows are nothing more than a glorified puppy match. They have no registry backers. Even the FCI, which is the ONLY international recognized show does not recognize the Biewer as a yorkshire terrier. This has been a big discussion on the yorkie lists with correspondance to back that statement.
I think the Biewers are adorable. And for the serious breeders who are working to perfect this breed, I say go for it. But it is not, and never will be, a yorkshire terrier.
Julie
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Julie..Thank you this is a VERY good point! I don't know enough but the International organization. I tried to research but the website has only info to register and complete and win..but what are they measuring too..that's another question..
The only way I see to 1. create a Parent club here in the US that spells out everything..2. approach the UKC once years of breeding to the standard can be traced. I was excited to learn that the IBC holds this type of record, we may be closer than we think but we will only slip farther if we keep diluting the standard...that's the focus of the UKC too..the want parentage to prove the standard is what it is basically. How can we prove that if we have pedigrees that jump all over the map??
As for refining..what are you refining if you breed the 2 standards? Neither IMO