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Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier puppies

Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier puppies and litters from UK breeders, with the parents’ health tests and licence details.

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Advertise Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier puppies for sale

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In England you need a dog breeding licence from your council if you breed three or more litters in 12 months or breed and sell dogs as a business, and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own schemes. Licensed breeders show their licence number and issuing council on every advert. Puppies must be at least eight weeks old before they go to new homes.

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Buying a Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier puppy

Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier puppies for sale are hard to find because this is a vulnerable native breed, with fewer than 100 dogs registered with the RKC in 2025. Try not to choose on looks alone: Wheaten puppies are usually darker than adults, the standard allows about two years for colour and coat texture to settle, and the club notes that the change to the adult coat, from around seven months, brings a spell of daily combing. Before you pay a deposit, ask to see blood, urine, hip, eye and DNA results for both parents, and ask whether the litter has had the kidney and eye checks that the breed club recommends before puppies leave. Puppies should be microchipped before they leave, and licensed breeders in England may not sell them under eight weeks old or show them to buyers without their mother.

Health tests to ask about

The RKC lists prioritising genetic diversity as Good Practice for the Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier, and two Best Practice schemes: the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme and the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme. It has no breed-specific DNA package and no additional breeding restrictions, and the breed is in Breed Watch Category 1, with no breed-specific concerns flagged for show judges.

The RKC also points to a breed club health scheme. The Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier Club of GB highlights renal dysplasia (RD), protein-losing nephropathy (PLN), protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) and degenerative myelopathy (DM), and explains the eye condition microphthalmia. RD and PLE have no DNA test. The club asks breeders to run blood and urine tests on both parents in the 12 months before a mating, strongly recommends DNA tests for the PLN-associated variant, DM and the RBP4 mutation linked to microphthalmia, and advises hip scoring and annual eye testing of breeding stock. It also recommends a kidney function check for each puppy at about seven to eight weeks, by blood test or scan, and an eye test for retinal folds at about six to eight weeks. The club advises yearly blood and urine checks for adult Wheatens as well.

  • Prioritising genetic diversity (RKC Good Practice)
  • BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme (RKC Best Practice)
  • BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme (RKC Best Practice)
  • Blood tests and urinalysis within 12 months before mating (breed club)
  • DNA tests: PLN-associated variant, degenerative myelopathy (DM), microphthalmia (RBP4) (breed club)
  • Puppy kidney blood test or scan at 7 to 8 weeks and eye test at 6 to 8 weeks (breed club)
  • Breed Watch: Category 1

More for Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier owners and breeders

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