Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  They are listed on the AKC website as a Biewer Terrier, a stand-alone breed but likely many will always think of them as some derivation of a Yorkshire Terrier due to their size, appearance, the way coats grow and are worn, with the topknot, floor length hair, tails, beards, history of breeding by noted Yorkshire Terrier breeders. But likely they have been bred to each other long enough now there could be significant differences other than appearance. And it's always been "buyer beware" with any dog purchase from the internet to the home setting so if people don't do their homework, lots of networking, researching their breeders bona fides, they often get scammed and disappointed, and it will always be, sad to say.
Likely, a true "Yorkie" person will forever be a Yorkie person, always captured by the lovely little fully clear tan/honey-sweet faces highlighting those mischievous little eyes and lovely, lively expressions of the standard tan and blue Yorkshire Terrier. That clear face just freezes me in my tracks with its striking loveliness. There is nothing else like it to me. No interruptions in the expressions, nothing to distract the eye from those darling little clear Yorkie faces.
There is something about the stripes and patches of different colors on a dog that otherwise looks like a Yorkie that is somehow discomfiting to this beholder's eye, for some reason. Cute? YES!!!! Look like Teddy Bears or stuffed toys in their cute, unique-looking factor. I love all dogs, such as those lovely, elegant new Azawakh Hounds, even the majestic Neapolitan Mastiff, you name it, all of the Heinz 57's out there. But those sharp color differences about the head and face keep Biewers and parti's from truly looking "Yorkie", at least to me. So I will forever think of any other look as separate breeds or dogs with breed fault, even if AKC allows parti's to be registered as Yorkshire Terriers but cannot show them at an AKC dog show as representative of the Yorkshire Terrier breed for their coat color fault. But cute - oh, yes, too cute, like little toys off the shelf and running around.
My sister had a parti-poodle, wonderful tight, curly coat, correct texture, full white, clear face and head, neck, body and tail, except for fully black ears & black saddle on back and that dog always said all poodle to me, so go figure. Never thought of her as a poodle with that major coat color fault - she was just precious. Of course, what dog isn't? |