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Originally Posted by BWRTerrierFan  ICKC recognizes Biewers, Yorkies, Golddust and Biros to be shown as separate breeds yet I see on some peoples websites that these dogs are coming out of the same litter! How is that possible, litter mates but different breeds??? Very credible I see. HA! |
These ARE all Yorkies....Bottom line is Mr.Biewer had to have his Yorkies with their new color pattern (Biewers) registered in a separate registery
as a different breed, so they COULD be registered, and shown, and not considered a fault by the AKC. He wanted his beautiful Yorkies to be accepted by AKC as a color variation, and given the blessings of the AKC, and since that was not going to be done, he had to go/have another registery to register his dogs. He had to register them as a separate breed so they woulkd not be considered "faults" of inferior. They were called Beiwers, but they are Yorkies with a color gene "fault"....(I use the word fault just because that was the reason they could not be registered, AND THEN SHOWN, in the AKC registery/sanctioned events.) Many people want to call these dogs two different breeds, but they are NOT! I personally spoke with Mr.Biewer back in the '90s when I was thinking about purchasing a breeding pair from him and bringing them to Texas....I just was not sure there was a "market" for these Yorkies, and it was going to be VERY expensive to do this, so I did not follow through....they were developed from two traditional Yorkies and because of the "color fault", they could not be registered or shown. But he stressed to me "they ARE purebred Yorkies, out of purebred Yorkies, with a color deviation".