What is the latest opinion on Biewer Terriers? Weird post, maybe, but I am curious. I have been killing time reading ooooooold posts on here today. Just any random things that interested me mostly. As a newer Biewer owner, of course, a lot of those posts caught my attention. It seems that about five years ago, there were quite strong opinions on Biewers for many. Now that they have fairly recently been recognized and added to the FSS program with AKC as a separate breed, I'm wondering what people's thoughts of this are? I don't have any strong opinions, as I'm not planning on ever breeding or showing, and I got Sheldon because I just fell in love with the breed, but I am curious if opinions have changed much since the most recent formal recognization of the breed. |
I have only heard great things about Biewers, and have always wanted one myself. I've heard how their temperaments are a little more mellow than Yorkies, and they sure are gorgeous. |
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I have a Biewer and have had two standard yorkies which I have raised from pups. My Biewer is much sweeter and calmer than my std yorkies. I love them, but not many people are familiar with them. They tend to run larger in size than std yorkies. I love their coloration. If I had to make a choice I would probably choose Biewer. My new yorkie pup is great but so hyper right now, LOL. That may be why I am choosing Biewer right now... |
As a new biewer mommy I think they are wonderful. I bought Rita, now 16 weeks and Mimi now 14 weeks, I think, the days run together.lol. Rita isa lot more laid back but Mimi is a wild child, into everything and has my older foster terrified. As to which is the best , I couldn't choose. They're all beautiful. I do plan on showing my girls with my breeders help but no matter what I adore them. |
Wow beautiful! (1st time I ever saw a Biewer picture).... Wow beautiful! (still...:D) |
I have never seen strong opinions on the biewers here everyone has known they were trying to get them established as a separate breed and everyone wished them well on that. There have been strong opinions from the different biewer clubs and pet owners about the biewers origion. I think it is kinda frowned upon here to breed biewer to yorkie for obvious reasons. The big controversy here has always been with the parti yorkies that look like the biewers because they are considered a color fault and parti owners are breeding them with chocolates or goldens or whatever to get the latest color fad to sell for the highest price the market will allow. Unfortunately you also see this type of breeding going on in the biewers to with the biro biewers and off colors so that is also frowned upon by different clubs in the biewers that think they are diluting the gene pool. So yorkie club and biewer clubs are experiencing the same frustration with some of these breeders |
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That said, I like a "traditional" Biewer....not a splitter, strong black saddle, white tummy, legs, tail, and chin. Never chocolate, and I'm more smitten with the above four and a half pound group. I also know that Biewers don't have a set pattern that is "correct". I just like the look of the "original" standard. |
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My opinion is based almost entirely on confusion and an old school viewpoint of the breed. I was around when partis and biewers were considered a mistake. I have no problem with new breeds or new colors of a breed but I am confused about how a mistaken color can become a new breed. They are absolutely beautiful but it makes my brain hurt to understand how they came from pure Yorkies but they are not Yorkies. |
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I will say that the Parti/Biewer comparison makes me nutty, and I'm not sure why...lol. Maybe because I trust the AKC too much? I feel like if the MARS testing and AKC accepting Biewers as a new breed is pretty reliable. I want to dig deeper, but am not sure where to look. I do know, however, that for a Biewer to be accepted into the FSS program, they have to be DNA proven, which definitely points to a consistent difference between Biewers and Yorkies. Parti Yorkies, however beautiful, have been deemed a fault and NOT a separate breed. Surely, with a registry as upstanding as AKC, there is a reason for this, no? |
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