So Who are Tchoklat Wheatens?

Welcome to the home page of Tchoklat Wheatens, breeders of Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers of the Irish type in Australia.  We bought our first wheaten in 2001, though when we were alerted to the major health issues behind her pedigree we desexed her, vowing to look elsewhere for healthy breeding lines. Our current wheatens are wonderful dogs, pure bred, with a known healthy ancestry. We recommend Wheatens to anyone wanting a loyal companion for up to fourteen plus years! 

Australia, like the US, has been plagued with health issues in the breed. Wheatens in Australia have been born affected with protein losing diseases. These diseases only appear to affect wheatens of the American type. We have imported breeding stock of the Irish type to remediate the risk of these genetically transmitted diseases that are present in other lines in Australia. The dogs we have recently imported include:

1.    "Aust Ch Aimee Aira Happy Wheaten" from the Czech Republic

2.    "Aust Ch Ellora Gillians Gold" from England (co-owned with Cormak)

3.   "NZ Ch Honeyrags Gearoid" from Sweden (via NZ)

4.    "NZ Ch Cummuppence at Bayadeirann" from New Zealand.

Our planned breeding program uses only the 'best of the best' from healthy Irish and International Champions from around the world to improve the quality, type, and more importantly health, of this wonderful breed in Australia. We do not outcross to these healthy lines using questionable dogs. Both parents of each mating are clear of hereditable health issues.

There are not many breeders in Australia who use Irish lines to breed healthy dogs. Contact details of breeders that breed the Irish style, and that we recommend, can be found at www.scwtca.org.au.

We are currently showing our new boy, Cormak Bono Vox. Bono has  an inpeccable pedigree. He is Ch Ellora Gillians Gold (Imp UK) to Aussie Diva Wanton Buddy's (Imp Cz). His role down the track will be a mate for our new imports, Erin and Lelia exported soon.

If you have an interest in owning an Irish Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier, or just want some questions answered please contact us. We respond to all inquiries and may be able to provide puppies to interested and suitable people if required. We have the occasional litter as our focus is on health and quality not quantity! 

What Have We Done?

Our first Wheatens were bred from dogs imported by other breeders into Australia in the eighties from the US and Sweden. These dogs, and dogs related to them, should not be bred, according to advice from the Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier Club of America and Dr Littman of the University of Pennsylvania, a renowned veterinary researcher funded by the American Wheaten Club. We have heeded this advice and only own, breed and recommend wheatens of the Irish type. The dogs that we breed from not related to affected dogs, again to remediate the risk of genetically transmitted disease. Tina and I have also been instrumental in starting the first Australasian Wheaten breeders club. For more information please visit, www.scwtca.org.au

What do you do now?

Please look through our site (via the navigation bars on the upper right) and see some of the dogs we have bred and owned, contact us if you want to talk further. After your research, we are confident that you will either return to Tchoklat Wheatens, or to another breeder of Irish Softcoated Wheaten Terriers! Email us if you wish to be referred to other responsible breeders - we will be happy to refer you on if we do not have a pup for you. For a concise history of the breed that looks at the deleterious affect the American type has had on the breed see the "Why Irish" link here. Also for an interesting article on how some Wheaten breeders are dividing the breed, by altering how Wheatens look through their focused breeding practices, please see this great article.