Biewer Standard

Definition of a Breed Standard:
A bred standard is the officially recognized written description of an ideal specimen of a specific breed. This is the document judges are tasked to interpret when judging in the breed ring, where dogs are judged as to how well they conform to this written standard of excellence. Original breed standards are written by the national parent clubs of each individual breed, and are then adopted by the Kennel Club of the appropriate country.

This is the original Biewer standard written and signed by Heir Werner Biewer on his personal stationary.

Here is the above document professionally translated into English:

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Werner Biewer, Bahnhof Nr. 14, 55483 Hirschfeld, Telephone (06543) 4888.

Hirschfeld, November 15, 1989

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Biewer Yorkshire a la Pom-Pon

Similar to the Yorkshire standard, except for hair length and hair color.

Hair color: White-Blue-Gold

Head: White-Blue-Gold symmetrically colored.

Body hair: Blue – interrupted white, total white or completely blue with

white neck ring. No gold (brown) in body hair. Legs, stomach

and chest hair white.

Hair length: Three-quarters to floor length.

Signature

Biewer, Werner

RVD/UCI Standard of Germany Reference No 00 / 490

The RVD/UCI standard was written by that club's President in conjunction with the founder, Donna Hall, of the first Biewer club in America, now inactive. This standard was used by International style kennel club shows until variations of it were submitted to them by a few different American Biewer Clubs whose standards currently varry. While the standards can be confusing as to which one to use, ultimately the judges decide which dog they feel comes closest to the ideal.

Biewer Standard

Founded in 2003
INFO: Translated from the UCI Standard of Germany
UCI Reference No 00 / 490

ORIGIN: Germany

GENERAL APPEARANCE: That of a long-haired toy terrier whose hair hangs evenly and straight down each side of the
body, and from the base of the skull to the end of the tail. The animal should be very compact and neat. The tail should be carried up. The outlines should give the impression of a powerful and well proportioned body.

HEAD AND SKULL: The head should be rather small and flat, not too propionate round in the skull, nor the muzzle too long with an absolute black nose. The hair on the head is long with colors: white-blue-gold, symmetrically colored.

EYES: Medium size, dark and sparkling with a sharp intelligent expression and placed in a way that they look straight. They shall not be too prominent and the eye rims should be of a dark color.

EARS: -Small V shaped ears, that are carried erect, and set not too far apart, covered with a short hair.

TEETH: The teeth should be all the same. Either a scissor bite or level bite is acceptable. Premolar faults are tolerated.

FORELEGS: - The legs should be totally straight, well covered with hair.

HIND LEGS –Legs rather straight, well muscled, and well covered with hair.

BODY: Very compact with well formed hips, and a level back line.

TAIL: A complete tail, with lots of hair, carried slightly higher than the level of the back.

FEET: As rounded as possible, with toenails being white or black.

COAT: The hair on the body has a length ¾ down the sides of the dog, or long enough to reach the ground, and is absolutely straight (not wooly), shiny like silk and of fine silky texture, without an undercoat. Coloring of the coat of the trunk, and the head piece are as follows:

Rather white or blue-white broken or closely blue absolute, or black, without brown coloring. Hair on the breast, pure white on the belly, and the legs. The head with White-blue-gold, symmetrical colored.

WEIGHT & HEIGHT: Up to 22 cm in height and a weight of about 3.1 kg.

FAULTS: Any and all differences within this breed standard. Light colored eyes or eye rims. Light colored nostrils.
Any ear that is not erect. An over or undershot bite. Wavy or curly hair.

Please Note: As of May 2002 Germany enacted the Animal Protection Dog Regulations
(TIERSCHUTZ-HUNDEVERORDNUNG) in which it is NOW ILLEGAL to dock tails or ears, therefore any docking of tails and ears on the Bierwer is considered FORBIDDEN in Germany. So ALL Biewer’s imported, and shown in the USA must have Uncropped tails and ears. This standard depicts the original standard, but we will enforce the current new restrictions enacted from Germany. Any Biewer shown in the United States or Germany must now be shown in its natural state. Any Biewer with cropped wears or tails will be disqualified.

Biewer Standard variations - Why are there different standards for the Biewer?

You may run across some websites that publicize a different standard for the Biewer. This happened due to dissagreements between clubs who feel the standard should have variances according to some aspects of the conformation of this breed, for instance colors, sizes, weights, etc.

If time is invested to look at photos of top Biewer breeders lines, you will see they are well bred dogs whose lines certainly do adhere to the standard written by Mr. Biewer and that they closely resemble his dogs in the historic photos.

See Mrs. Biewer's letter in response to questions from American fanciers of the breed.

Breeding ~ Biewer to Biewer only or Biewer to Yorkie?

We are committed to what Mr. Biewer has set forth, and honor him and his work.

Mrs. Biewer, his wife of many years, has recently re-stated her position against breeding a standard Yorkshire Terrier into the Biewer lines. (See her recent letter).

There are some that feel a standard Yorkie must be bred into the Biewer for various reasons, be it for health or color or for other reasons. But the fact that the Yorkshire Terrier breed has heriditary problems of it's own would only add those to the Biewer lines.

There are now some off colored Biewer puppies born and instantly called a new breed such as "Golddust" or "Biro". The fact is that a pure bred dog bred to another pure bred dog of the same breed should not produce off colored dogs that are a "new breed".

We at CALARYN believe the Biewer can stand on it's own as a breed, and will only breed pure Biewer to Biewer.

Our lines have many generations of all Biewer breeding and have been traced to and beyond Darling and Fru-Fru von Friedheck back to their ancestors of the Streamglen kennel in England.

Biewers & Yorkshire Terriers of CALARYN

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