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Originally Posted by Rhetts_mama  For someone who doesn't want to get in to breed politics, you sure do like to bring it up. Club politics exists not just in the Biewer clubs, but the YTCA as well.
As for the validity of the Mars test, there have been multiple threads on YT and elsewhere discussing its validity.
For now, Parti breeders don't consider their dogs Biewers and Biewers don't consider their dogs Parti's. What the final answer is will have to be worked out at some future date. I don't have a dog in the fight. I am merely putting out what is out their from the clubs to point out that Lynzy's question about whether the resultant pups would be considered mixed breed a valid question at this time. |
If I said "breed" politics, I meant "club" politics. And I agree with you 100% that club politics most likely exist in any breed club -- not just YTCA and the Biewer clubs.
And, there are probably just as many threads on YT and elsewhere about the Mars test that talk about its invalidity. I do personally feel that they may have improved the quality of their research, but when the testing was done on the Biewers, it was not very dependable. Mix that in with quality control of the tests being sent in not under Mars control, there seems to be skewed results.
What breed do the Parti owners consider their dogs? Yorkie. They are not referred to as "mutts.". Biewers are not considered Parties, because they are not registered as AKC. Parties are not considered Biewers, because they are not registered with the IBC, which is the Breed club in Germany. My response to Linzy was based on the breed's country of origin club rules. In Germany, if you breed a yorkie to a Biewer, they are NOT considered a "mutt.". They are classified according to their color.