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Originally Posted by hobbette  I think I have my husband talked in to another yorkie. I love the look of the partis, but I'm not sure how to go about finding one since anyone actually trying to breed them isn't breeding for standard, and accidental ones seem like they would be a lot more rare, and as such even harder to find.
I thought about going for a biewer instead, but last I saw they were still pretty rare here, and the most places I did find seemed shady to me. a lot of places have standard and Golddust biewers which I don't remember seeing when I was looking at them a couple years back before I got Yumi, so I'm guessing it a color fault they're selling as something special kind of like they do with off color yorkies? they look adorable but still it seems off...
any thoughts or ideas? |
There are a lot of good, honest, reputable Biewer breeders, but you have to keep in mind that the piebald (white with colored patches) color patterning of Biewers and the golden color of "Gold dust" Biewers and Yorkshire Terriers are not rare spontaneous mutations that just showed up one day in these lines. They were intentionally (and perhaps surreptitiously) bred into these breeds from other breeds of dogs. We know this because of genetic testing of the color genes--they have been proven to have been introduced from other breeds.
Biewers are recognized as a separate breed from Yorkshire Terriers because of this. Gold Dust and Chocolate (and other non standard colors) Biewers and Yorkshire Terriers are really designer dogs and not purebred. I would be leery of any breeder who said otherwise, because they are charging a premium price for an off-color dog of questionable parentage. Not to mention the possibility of genetic diseases creeping into breeding stock that has not been bred to a healthy breed standard. It's not impossible to find a perfectly healthy non-breed-standard dog, but if it were me, I wouldn't want to take the chance.
So if you don't want a standard color Yorkshire Terrier, it's possible to buy a Biewer from a reputable breeder, but I'd stay away from Gold Dust and other off colors.