Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier Forum:
Wheatens can be lovely, too!

My wheaten is fine--actually, he turned three this year and is a dream come true now. He is a little shy and emotional but super loving, and when he has something he knows he isn't supposed to have, he growls but it is just a show. He never bites. Every now and then there is a person who he randomly just doesn't like and it isn't a problem--we just move on...he doesn't do anything to that person and I don't push the issue. We had a Beardie that was super protective and aggressive, like some of you are reporting. He was a loving companion but we had to be SO careful with him. Riley is an angel. I wouldn't rec. getting a dog from a random person online far away...but our wheaten was--we just picked him instead of flying him out....I have had many students whose families have had wheatens that were reportedly lovely (only one told me of a cousin who had one that nipped all the time). I would hate for someone looking for a dog and thinking they had the perfect match in a wheaten, and then deciding not to based on isolated cases of animals that obviously have problems--be it canine schizophrenia (if that exists) or whatever. Not ALL wheatens are like this. I am grateful that mine is healthy and sweet and happy--and a little quirky, true to the terrier type. It\'s the risk you run, when you decide to take a live creature into your life--they have personalities and problems, just like children. I am sorry for the man whose Wheaten attacked him. That's sad. It, however, doesn\'t mean that it HAS to be his breeding that caused the problem, though. It could be that the dog is getting old and starting to deteriorate. Like I said, my Beardie would do this when you touched certain spots on his body--I imagine