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Originally Posted by luvlee  Ahhh, you're in the THICK of it all right!!  |
Please, someone help me find a way out! I got hair in my eyes!
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Originally Posted by luvlee 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.  )
Tracey |
I've seen Biewer breeder websites where the breeders are posting the results of their MARS testing of new dogs, and they are still testing as Biewers, so there must have been enough legitimate samples in the original study, but if there are any valid reasons to retest (other than he-says, she-says), then MARS could try retesting at least a sample of the questioned dogs just to be sure they are legitimate.
I agree with you on all the rest.