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Originally Posted by bchgirl  The Biewers owned a singular other dog, a neutered Tibetan Terrier. He bought a yorkshire terrier stud, named Steamglen Richard from kennels located in England. He bred Richard virtually to every female he owned. Richard is the grandsire on on both sides of the pedigrees of Fru Fru von Friedheck and Darling von Friedheck. They were the pair which produced the first tri colored puppy.
And across the ocean in the US...Nikko had also purchased a dog from Streamglen. This dog was also on both sides of the pedigree in the tri colored puppy produced.
So any cross breeding that introduced the piebald gene occurred at Streamglen.
From there the path Mr. Biewer took and the US parti breeders took were entirely different.
At this point where the color came from, what breeds are behind the color, the name of the breed...is all moot. Biewers moved much further than Germany and the US. They are recognized as a breed of its own in several countries, in registries recognized by akc, and are shown as such in FCI events.
And on parsons terrier boards people used to argue that the "breed" were jack russells...well guess what...akc recognizes now them as two distinct breeds.  |
So the piebald trait was already present in Streamglen dogs, and Richard was probably a carrier. Fascinating! Thanks for the information!