So$ Coated Wheaten Terrier Club of Great Britain
The So$ Coated Wheaten Terrier Club of Great Britain The Club was founded in 1955 by a small handful of members and recognised by the Kennel Club in 1957 We have some 850 families as Club members in the UK 20 are in more far flung regions from Australasia to Africa, the Caribbean and North America 10 are in Europe There are three BulleNns a year full of arncles by Club members, items on training, behaviour, health and anything else of interest to the members. We also have an opnonal Yearbook repornng events Show reports and stansncs for the year.
The So$ Coated Wheaten Terrier Club of Great Britain Other publicanons include The So$ Coated Wheaten Terrier Breed Handbook The Expanded & Illustrated Breed Standard of the So$ Coated Wheaten Terrier The Book of Champions The New Owner s Guide DVD: The So$ Coated Wheaten Terrier. A Guide to the care of your dog And a very busy web site: www.wheaten.org.uk
The So$ Coated Wheaten Terrier Club of Great Britain The Club has two Open Shows and a Championship show every year and four or five fun days. ParNcipaNon by our Junior members is encouraged.
The So$ Coated Wheaten Terrier Club of Great Britain We have Walk Our Wheaten days (WOW) around the country And special events such as Wheaten of the Year. We have Judges training seminars regularly.
The So$ Coated Wheaten Terrier Club of Great Britain Our Club supports Kennel Club activities such as Discover Dogs at Cruft and in London in the autumn and their Good Citizen Dog Scheme.
Breeders and Breeding in the UK Over the past 5 years, 127 different breeders have registered puppies. 36 of these have no Kennel Club registered kennel name 57 people only bred one lider 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Puppies 352 287 321 403 324 Liders 46 47 54 65 58 In the list of the 26 terrier breeds recognised by the Kennel Club, the Wheaten comes 12 th in number of puppies born per year.
Imports & exports over the past 5 years Wheatens imported from other countries Canada 1 Republic of Ireland 38 Germany 1 The Netherlands 2 Sweden 3 USA 1. Wheatens exported to other countries Australia 2 Canada 1 Czechoslovakia 1 Denmark 1 Norway 1 The Netherlands 2 Oman 1 New Zealand 3 USA 4
Breeding guidelines of the SCWT Club of GB General The owner of the stud dog and the owner of the bitch have equal responsibility to breed from Wheatens which conform to the Breed Standard and are of sound temperament and which are registered with The Kennel Club. No Wheaten should be bred from for which there is specialist veterinary evidence that it is affected by, or is carrying genencally, a serious inherited disease. Use should be made of the schemes devised to test both the sire and the dam for known serious health problems or hereditary defects. Brood Bitches: Bitches should be two years of age or have had her third season (whichever is earliest), Puppies born to a bitch a$er a bitch s eighth birthday cannot usually be registered with the Kennel Club A bitch should not have a first lider a$er her fi$h birthday without prior veterinary consultanon. Bitches may not have any more than six liders during their lifenmes, and ideally no more than four liders, nor should they be bred on consecunve seasons without a cernficate from a veterinary surgeon. Stud Dogs: A dog should not be used at stud if the dog itself, or the bitch brought to him, is in poor condinon. Stud services should be refused to any bitch not registered with the Kennel Club or whose progeny cannot be registered with the Kennel Club Note: In order to facilitate the keeping of full health records, we also ask that owners inform the Secretary of the death of their Wheaten at whatever age.
Wheaten health in the UK Renal dysplasia (PNP): Monitoring of puppies since 1984. Many pups snll blood tested for normal kidney funcnon before dispersal to new homes. Blood tesnng for normal kidney funcnon of both sire & dam recommended before breeding The problem was advised to be a recessive gene so producers of RD, their close relanves and progeny were withdrawn from breeding. Names of parents of proven carriers are printed annually in BulleNn and Yearbook With the cooperanon of breeders, very few cases seen in the last 10 years. Protein losing diseases: Names of Wheatens proven to have died of PLE/PLN and those of Wheatens considered by the experts to have sufficient veterinary evidence that they are suffering form PLE/PLN are published annually. Fewer than a dozen Wheatens confirmed to be affected to date, but there is concern these will increase. A research project at the Royal Veterinary College is trying to idennfy an early laboratory test for PLE. To confirm PLE at present requires a biopsy or endoscopy: both are invasive, require anaesthenc and are a$er symptoms have developed. > The panca (perinuclear ann neutrophilic cytoplasmic annbody) test uses a small blood sample. This is also being tested to determine the blood albumin level. A lower than normal albumin result indicates kidney problems > 189 Wheatens, aged from 2 upwards, have been tested. 39 were panca posinve.: however only one of these had a low albumin level. The project will connnue over the next 18 to 24 months on Wheatens from the original test, with both posinve and neganve panca results, whose owners have volunteered that their dogs to connnue to be tested. > If any of those Wheatens which had a posinve panca test develop signs of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) or PLE, this may help to confirm a link between panca results and the later development of protein losing disease. If this research theory is proven to be correct, this will idennfy those Wheatens who could develop PLE two or more years before signs of the disease become evident. This would allow special diets, etc. to be used and hopefully delay the onset. It will be some Nme before this answer is known.
Health tesnng recommendanons on sire and dam before breeding Blood test for normal kidney funcnon Hip score Eye test
Health tesnng recommendanons for puppies before they go to their new homes Blood tests for normal kidney funcnon Eye test for rennal folds In some liders, hearing test
The Kennel Club/BriCsh Small Animal Veterinary AssociaCon CommiGee's Summary Results of the Purebred Dog Health Survey for SoK Coated Wheaten Terriers 824 forms were sent out to SCWT Club members. 380 returned, represennng 505 live dogs a 46.1% response rate. 45% of the SCWT were neutered with slightly more bitches being neutered than males. Mortality data (frequency per number of deaths in proporcon to populacon): A total of 111 deaths were reported. Causes of death Number of dogs Median age 1. Cancer 29 dogs (26.1%) 10.5 years 2. Old age 23 dogs (20.7%) 13.75 3. Unspecified 10 dogs (9%) 13.75 4. Urologic 9 dogs (8.1%) 12.6 (kidney failure, PLN, glomerulonephri7s, incon7nence) 5. CombinaNons 8 dogs (7.2%) 12.6 6. Neurologic 5 dogs (4.5%) 12.75 (seizures, myelopathy, spinal paralysis) Other causes include everything from aggression to heart adacks and road accidents. Median age of death for SCWT was 12 years 6 months (ranging over the 111 dogs reported from 6 months to 17 years). This is higher than the overall all breeds survey median of 11 years 3 months This report can be seen in its ennrety on the Kennel Club web site: www.thekennelclub.org.uk/item/570 and click on So$ Coated Wheaten Terrier
The Kennel Club/BriCsh Small Animal Veterinary AssociaCon CommiGee's Summary Results of the Purebred Dog Health Survey for SoK Coated Wheaten Terriers Median current age of the 505 live dogs was 4 years 11 months (age range 3 months to 15 years 9 months) 330 of these were healthy and 175 had at least one reported health condinon Morbidity data (rate of incidence of an illness): The ten most common problems reported were: General health condicon Number of dogs CondiCons included 1. Dermatologic 39 dogs (14.9%) DermaNNs, sebaceous cysts, fading nose pigment, pyotraumanc dermanns 2. Aural 34 dogs (13.0%) ONNs externa 3. GastrointesNnal 30 dogs (11.5%) ColiNs, inflammatory bowel disease, vominng and diarrhoea, pancreanns 4. Musculoskeletal 21 dogs (8.0%) ArthriNs (hind limbs: shoulders: spine>rest), snff joints, CHD, patellar luxanon 5. Cancer 18 dogs (6.9%) Unspecified (mammary>rest), carcinoma (mammary, tail), basal cell tumour, lymphoma 6. Immune mediated 17 dogs (6.5%) Food allergy, flea allergy, atopy, gluten sensinve enteropathy, allergy unspecified 7. Benign neoplasia 16 dogs (6.1%) Lipoma, unspecified, adenoma, cysts 8. ReproducNve 15 dogs (5.7%) False pregnancy, dystochia, physical blockage, agalacna, inability to breed, masnns, pyometra 9. Respiratory 14 dogs (5.3%) Kennel Cough, asthma, coughing, upper respiratory tract infecnon 10. Urologic 13 dogs (5.0%) InconNnence (unspecified>a$er spay),
Health surveys by the SCWT Club of GB Our Club ran a general health survey over a three year period. Those owners who took part in the ininal survey were asked to fill in a second form a year later and then a third form a year a$er that. Results were received for over 400 Wheatens. The health forms are now with The Royal Veterinary College for analysis. As lidle is known about the ageing of the Wheaten, a follow up form was sent to those owners parncipanng in the third round of the above survey. This will be connnued over future years
The UK s Top winning Wheaten of all Nme Breed record holder with 34 Challenge CerNficates Ch/Ir Ch Stevelyn Blue Suede Shoes of Kariskiye
Some of the recent Top Wheatens Ch/Ir Ch Amberstar Paperback Writer Top Dog 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 Ch Kariskiye Kyanite Kizmet Top Dog 2006
Some of the recent Top Wheatens Ch. Starcadia Caleche with Jesiwel Top Bitch 2002 Ch. Stevelyn My Way Top Bitch 2003 Ch. Chloeanco Wish upon a Star Top Bitch 2004
Some of the recent Top Wheatens Ch/Ir Ch Snowmeadow Jellybean Jilly Top Bitch 2005 & 2006 Ch/Ir Ch Snowmeadow Jodie Bo Jangles Top Bitch 2007
A family tree Ch. Snowmeadow Blue Baroo Ch. Glendowan Starlite Express Glendowan I m a Rambler Ch/Ir Ch Snowmeadow Daisy Dazzler to Amberstar Ch/Ir Ch Amberstar Paperback Writer Ch/Ir Ch Snowmeadow Feebee Friday Ch/Ir Ch Snowmeadow Jodie Bo Jangles Ch/Ir Ch Snowmeadow Jellybean Jilly Ch Snowmeadow Jazzy Jacob
Wheaten males currently in the ring Ch/Can Ch Jonaire Kataxin Va Va Ch/Ir Ch Kanjuley Kygwenethan ShCM Voom O'Kellynack ShCM. Ch Ellora Bolle Boy Ch Caidantes That s Ma Boy Ch Lilwaukee Rock N Roll Star Ch Fantasa Blonde Fagin ShCM
Wheaten bitches currently in the ring Ch. Kinaelan Cuchylaene Ch Emalot English Rose Ch Abbeymead Hootenanny Ch Kizzahla KaNnka Glendowan Polly Flinders
Some up and coming youngsters Ch Riabee Sagidarian Comet our newest Ch! Lilwaukee Veni Vidi Vici Loofahsa Teenage Dirtbag Pippajam Gold Leaf Stevelyn Rock Legend Denzilly Toot Sweet
So$ Coated Wheaten Terrier Club of Great Britain