Welcome to the home page of Tchoklat Wheatens, breeders of Irish style Softcoated Wheaten Terriers in Australia. Tina and Tony have owned Wheatens since 2001. Our wheatens are wonderful dogs, pure bred, with a known ancestry. We recommend them 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 affect American style wheatens. We have imported Irish style breeding stock  to remediate the risk of these genetically transmitted diseases that are present in other lines in Australia. The dogs we have imported include:

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

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

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

4.    "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 helathy lilnes 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. Breeders that breed the Irish style, and that we recommend, can be found at www.scwtca.org.au.

We are currently showing our new pup Penelope, more formally known as "Tchoklat Event Horizon". Penelope is the pick puppy from our last litter, Bowie to Aimee, and is already doing well in the show ring.

If you have an interest in owning an Irish Softcoated 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! 

So Who are Tchoklat Wheatens?

Tchoklat Wheatens are quite new breeders of Softcoated Wheatens. We bought our first wheaten, Minny-Me, in 2001, though when we were alerted to the health concerns behind her pedigree alarm bells rang. As our first wheatens were related to affected dogs and we bred a dog affected with kidney disease, we have desexed our remaining breeding stock from these lines and moved on.

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 established ourselves with wheatens of the Irish type. The dogs that we breed from are only very distantly 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 affect the American type has 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 focussed breeding practices, please see this great article.