Timeline of the Biewer Yorkie
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Biewer Yorkie Evolvement
The Unvarnished Truth
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Important Dates for the Evolvement of the Biewer Yorkie
January 20, 1984
Werner & Gertrude Biewer produced the 1st Biewer Yorkie out of Darling von Friedheck X FruFru von Friedheck named Scheefloeckchen von Friedheck.
1984 - 1986
Original Biewers had pedigrees from the Klub Terrier aka KFT ( VDH/FCI ) designated as "Wrong Colour" and "Not for Breeding" thus no offspring from them could be registered.
1986
Biewer family began to register with the ACH e.V as Biewer Yorkshire Terrier with Mr. Rolf Beckel as the Biewer Yorkshire Terrier.
The breed name changed from Biewer Yorkshire Terrier to Biewer Yorkshire al a Pom-Pon.
March 1988
Mr. Biewer showed his tri-colored Yorkies at Wiesbaden, Germany.
November 15, 1989
Heir Werner Biewer signed the original Biewer Yorkshire Terrier breed standard with the ACH e.V - Allgemeiner Club der Hundefreunde Deutschlande. V.
1997
Werner Biewer passed away and Mrs. Biewer dispensed of the Biewer breeding program.
May 1998
Germany bans the docking of tails.
2000
The Biewer breed has declined significantly in Germany and is in danger of extinction.
2003
1st 2 registered Biewers are imported to the United States by Nancy Anderson being "Fred" and "Wilma".
May 15, 2003
BYA was the 1st and is the oldest
American Biewer Registry.
ACR (*American Canine Registry) formed the BYA - Biewer Yorkie Association being the 1st Biewer Yorkie Registry in the United States. The 1st American Breed Standard was established at that time and was changed to include the colors of Black, Brown and Crème since those colors were and have proven to be possible in the breed.
May 23, 2003
ACR along with their newly formed BYA hosted the 1st show on U.S. soil where Biewers were officially recognized as a breed and shown. The 1st 2 shown Biewer Yorkies in the United States were dogs affectionately called "Fred" & "Wilma" by Ms. Nancy Anderson. They were both imported from Germany in 2002.
2003
ACR formed an F-hybrid program in which to establish more colonies of Biewer Yorkies with less health issues and better overall conformation and coat type by breeding with the Yorkshire Terrier. Germany has always allowed the same breeding process but have never seen the need to document dogs as to individual F-hybrid status. Somewhere along the line somebody felt the need to start referring to these as "Splitters" in other registries.
May 24, 2003
Dagmar along with Ms. Daniela Brawn established the Deutsche Biewer Club.
June 2003
Donna Hall of Flyers Biewers from the ABC (*American Biewer Club) showed her Biewers through the IABCA. Decoration was later found to have Liver Shunt.
September, 2004
Dagmar and Ms. Brawn could not get along and Dagmar left the DBC and established the Deutscher Biewer Club and the now known IBC, International Biewer Club. 16 months AFTER the formation of the BYA.
Donna Hall along with Dagmar of the IBC establish the IBC Breed Standard for the Biewer Yorkie.
2004
IBC banned Donna Hall just months after taking the ABC in as their American affiliate.
December 1, 2004
1st recorded Biro born - Art of Highclass Relight My Chocolate. Dam was Alisha vom WasserschloBchen and the sire was Uz von der Elsteraue.
January 14, 2005
Biro named "Little Princess" from the now nonexistent 'Lightening Showboy' kennel was born. This puppy was out of Ailine von Alkotmany (*daughter of Alisha) and the sire was Uz von der Elsteraue.
2005
NBCA - National Biewer Club of America - was formed.
2006
Gayle Pruett accused Dagmar of the IBC of fraudulent registration practices.
2006
BYTNC - Biewer Yorkshire Terrier National Club - was formed along with the BNR - Biewer National Registry.
2006
Biewers were imported into Russia.
2006
Gayle Pruett formed the BTCA - Biewer Terrier Club of America.
October 2006
NBCA (*National Biewer Club of America) changes its name to BBCI (*Biewer Breed Club International.)
December 2006
BBIR - Biewer Breed International Registry was formed to database the studbook for the BBCI.
2007
BYTNC changed their name to BAPPC - Biewer a la Pom Pon Club of America.
2007
ARBA - American Rare Breed Association - accepted the breed as a purebred and allowed the showing of the Biewer in their ARBA shows.
February 2007
BTCA in conjunction with Mars Veterinary start genetic testing to determine the genetic make-up of the Biewer Terrier.
2007
IBC banned Gayle Pruett along with the BTRA and BTCA.
2007
Mrs. Gertrude Biewer signed the Biewer a la Pom-Pon standard in 2007 for the IBC. 10 years after she was no longer involved in breeding Biewers.
2007
Gayle Pruett formed the BTRA - Biewer Terrier Registry of America.
April 2007
Ms. Gertrude Biewer clarified the Biewer breed standard to allow black coloration as well as the already accepted Blue standard and to allow those with only 2 colored (*White/gold) heads.
November 2007
BTCA members met with Ms. Biewer and through Interpreters supposedly gained her support and loyalty whereas she is said to denounce all other registries and breed standards. (*Per Gayle Pruett).
2008
BBCC - Biewer Breed Club Canada was established.
October 2008
BBIC (*Biewer Breed International Club) Changes name to BBCA - Biewer Breed Club of America.
01/20/2009
Gayle Pruett stated on a Yorkie forum "Who says the history is correct? We have got documentation on various breeders in Germany that have forged registrations, and mixed Maltese with yorkies."
October 5, 2009
Mars Veterinary announced they had a genetic breed signature for the Biewer Terrier.
2010
BTCA claims the Biewer Terrier is not a Yorkshire Terrier but a proven cross-breed of it's own.
2010
Russian Biewer Club is formed.
2010
IBC (*Dagmar) banned all American Born Biewers from the IBC. She later rescinded the ban.
01/21/2011
Biewer Terrier Club of South Africa was recognized by the KUSA as a recognized developing breed. Present were Marianne Duncan of the BTCSA and Mr. Greg Eva of the KUSA.
2011
Gayle Pruett, President of BTRA/BTCA accused of fraudulent paperwork associated with the IABCA.
2011
Gayle Pruett, President of the BTRA/BTCA accused of posing as a DVM in association with testing through the Mars Veterinary Group.
Other Information Associated with the Biewer Yorkie
The Biewer Yorkie was originally named the Biewer Yorkshire Terrier.
Name changed to Biewer Yorkshire a la Pom Pon by the Biewer Family.
Named the Biewer Yorkie by the BYA.
Named the Biewer Terrier by the BTRA.
Nancy Anderson posted the 1st documented History of the Biewer Yorkie in 2003 and corrected the errors of it being called a "mutation" by the Biewer family to it's actual genetic occurrence of being the Piebald gene.
2 years after Mr. Rolf Beckel died, Dagmar became the President of ACH-L.
Dagmar oversees the ACH-L that registers all other breeds of dogs - she is also the owner of IBC.
The AKC Nikkos bloodline of Tri-colored Yorkies trace back to the same Streamglen Shaun of the Biewer Yorkie.
Biro - the Biro breed name was formed from the 1st 2 letters of the breeders names. Birgit Rosner & Roberto Krah.
Biro was 1st registered with the ACH-e.V.
Donna Halls Biewer male, Decoration, was diagnosed with Liver Shunt. Donna Hall faded from the Biewer world when reports circulated that she bred the sister of the confirmed Liver Shunt affected Decoration. It has been reported that she sold the Sister to Decoration as a breeder, after she was asked to alter all siblings related to Decoration by the German breeder and waited until she was heavily bred to ship her to the new owner whereas the dog aborted the litter. She resurfaced when the BBCI was formed.
Jan Prosser & Helen Curran are the original founders of the BBCI, now the BBCA.
ABA - American Biewer Alliance
1st website on the Internet for Biewer Yorkies was from the 'Lightening Showboy" kennel owned by Birgit Rosner of Germany. The 1st United States Biewer Breeder to have a website was Nancy Anderson of 'Class Act Kennel'.
The ABC as well as the original Mi-Ki Club that Donna hall co-founded are no longer in existence.
Discrepancy in dates as it has been stated that a certain breeder became aware of the Biewer while showing a MiKi in Germany and is being accredited by some as being the 1st to import a Biewer onto U.S. soil but Mi Ki history states the 1st Mi Ki imported, registered and shown in Europe was early 2004.
If the Biewer Yorkie is not a Yorkshire Terrier as it's history tells by the Biewer Family then WHO crossed them and WHEN? Is Ms. Biewer aware that the BTCA is refuting the history and lineage of the Biewer Yorkie as told by both her and her husband? WHY would Ms. Biewer support a club who has said by genetic testing they have proved that the Biewer is a mixed breed dog and is not a purebred Yorkie? If this testing is to be believed then shouldn't the Championships of the Biewers highly regarded Yorkshire Terriers be stripped and the dogs removed from the Yorkshire Terrier database along with all of their offspring as they would of had to of been cross-bred dogs themselves?
The BYA - Biewer Yorkie Association was form as the BYA in 2003, has never been banned from any unbiased legitimate registry including the IBC. The BYA has never participated in any political or agenda warfare concerning the Biewer Yorkie. BYA is here to document, database/register and promote the Biewer Yorkie and that is their only purpose.
When Ms. Biewer was asked if they saw their Biewers as Yorkies she remarked: ""Well, it is a Yorky, only 3-colored".
Ms. Biewer was asked: How much black should be on the back? Her answer was: The back should be separated by it. This would be a BELTED or Tuxedo (*lower form of Piebald) dog and not a full piebald as a piebald is spotted where-as a Belted dog would have a type of Tuxedo appearance. All of the pictures ever shown of the Biewer personal dogs were belted and not piebald. The later occurrence of Piebald dogs may be the answer to where the bloodlines changed from that of the Yorkie to those of other breeds.
The Biewers also owned and showed Shih-Tzu's.
If the VDH had of accepted the Biewer's tri Yorkies for full registration and not wrong coloured the Biewer Yorkie would of never become reality.
The BTCA state they have over 100 Biewers tested and have proven they are a mixed breed dog and not the sole genetics of the Yorkshire Terrier. One must wonder if the history as presented to us is true, or if unscrupulous breeders over the years have cross-bred to get the pattern.
Mars Veterinary has detected using both the Wisdom Panel MX test, and other scientific analysis that all the Biewer Terriers submitted to us for testing had a similar, but distinct, genetic signature to the Purebred Yorkshire Terriers we have tested. It is not possible for us to definitively state with current knowledge and technology what (if any) other breeds than Yorkshire Terrier were present in the foundation of the Biewer terriers pedigrees and what gene (or genes) are causing the distinctive coloration seen in the Biewer terriers. All we can say is that Biewer Terriers share closest genetic similarity to Yorkshire Terriers than they do to any other breed that the Wisdom Panel can detect. The question of which dogs founded the Biewer Terrier pedigree is more a question for the Biewer Terrier founder breeders. All we can state is that all Biewer Terriers tested with Wisdom Panel MX contain a significant amount of signature match to the Yorkshire Terrier, often with minor matches to other breeds including in some dogs - Japanese Chin and Maltese breed signatures amongst others.
It is clearly a matter for the various global Kennel Clubs and Breed clubs to determine what is and isn't a breed in their eyes, and also to draw up the breed standards and qualifying measures to determine which individual dogs are considered to be members of breeds.
I hope that I have gone some way to answering your questions. If you have any more, or would like further information, then please feel free to reply directly to me or to get in touch with our customer care team at customercare@marsveterinary.com or 888-K9 PET TEST (1-888-597-3883).
TIME LINE OF BIEWERS
