Our List of Scottie Food & Necessities

At Kingsdale Scottish Terriers, we use only the specified commercial canned food and commercial kibble you see here.,  ONLY these specific brands and flavors meet our standards for no dyes, no artificial ingredients, chemicals, no legumes and high quality of nutrients. Every meal, each dog receives some kibble, and some wet food from a can. In addition, they get unspicy plain roast chicken breast meat, a portion of a hard boiled egg,  organic pumpkin, sardines, and steamed broccoli. We also feed a probiotic weekly. There are specific other healthy human foods we give as treats or and novelty.

We feed 3 meals a day, 6:30 am, 12:30 pm, 6:30 pm. We always keep treats on hand, and in fact give  one or two kibbles or a portion of one little biscuit every time we place a dog in their crate, move them to an outdoor pen, trim nails, clean ears, train, etc! All of these food items except the human food, are available from Chewy.

Blue Wilderness Beef & Chicken Grill , the wet food in the purple can, is our favorite wet food for all dog ages. The Health Extension Original Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe is our favorite kibble for all dog ages (once they have  sufficient teeth.) We do not use any other brands, or flavors of normal commercial dog foods, other than the one mentioned under acceptable alternatives, which are to be used only  if supply chain is problematic. We do use special formula wet foods for transitioning babies to solids, if a dog has been ill or has given birth.

We give many kinds of treats as rewards for training or activities we do with the dogs, such as sports or showing or obedience. Many of our treats are home made,; we share special recipes with the pawrents of our dogs and puppies! These are the two commercially available dog treats we like best for their ingredients and value to the dogs.

You have to be super careful about what you give a Scottie to play with. They are very persistent and vigorous in pursuing the complete destruction of whatever they play with, and you have to monitor carefully the condition of all play things and other chewable items in their environment. They have been known to swallow insanely awful things, sometimes causing serious damage to themselves, including death.

These Yak Cheese sticks are great fun and safe to provide for chewing, but we limit the chewing time to 30 minutes or less on any given occasion, because longer chewing sessions can result in diarrhea. When the sticks get short, we throw them out to avoid the risk of their getting stuck in the throat.

Good grooming is not only essential to the good health of your Kingsdale Scottish Terrier, it also is especially gratifying to the eye to see a well groomed and proud Scottish Terrier. We encourage pawrents to learn as much as possible about proper Scottrish Terrier grooming and we offer pawrent training, and also, we are available to groom your Scottie in your home for (and /or with) you. A majority of pet dog groomers do not know how a Scottie is supposed to look, unfortunately. Here are some of the tools we use to keep our dogs looking like the majestic Kings and Queens that they are!