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Originally Posted by pstinard  Oh dear, I don't want to create more controversy, but I think that Parti-Yorkies got their piebald gene in the same way that Biewers did--by crossing in from another breed. BUT, I have read absolutely nothing about DNA breed testing of Parti Yorkies, so I don't have as much data to go on as I do for Biewers--the evidence is much more clear in Biewers. It would be great to sequence the MITF (piebald) gene in Parti Yorkies too, just to try to get an idea of what is going on. I am willing to keep an open mind. We simply need more data. |
Ahhh, you're in the THICK of it all right!!
Someone also mentioned potential mix with s**tzu or Maltese. I don't remember which one that Mr. Biewer also bred - it was one of those 2.
Someone else also mentioned a re-do of the testing since the 100 samples originally submitted by G.Pruett & company may be tainted. That would be the right thing to do. Certainly there are enough Biewers to test.
Perhaps people are too afraid to do that now. Maybe breeders don't want to know the complete & messy history as it relates to their lines.
In any event, it's my opinion that there's been sufficient breedings of the Biewer for it to be considered a distinct breed. IMHO, there's no reason to breed back to the Yorkie. It doesn't bother me in the least that some other breed was mixed in early on to create the Biewer.
Don't all dogs descend from wolves anyway? At some point, all breeds were mixed with something else - save the dogs that were created in the Book of Genesis (I guess they just popped up out of nowhere after there was light & earth.
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Tracey