When news of a Scot­tish cow milk cheese chew came our way we were intrigued. (Along with tongue-tied. Try say­ing “Scot­tish cow milk cheese chew” five times fast!) As past expe­ri­ence has taught us, we need to be pretty picky about what treats and chews our guys get.

So sent off a mes­sage to the High­land K9 Dog Chew peo­ple ask­ing where it could be pur­chased in the US. They replied, while their prod­uct isn’t yet avail­able in the US, it can be ordered via their Churpi Ltd. web­site and shipped Royal Mail.

Zipped over and checked out their site, but ship­ping to the US is equiv­a­lent to the price of the prod­uct. A bit off­set­ting. So sorry Crew, no exotic, heather-grazing Scot­tish cow milk cheese chews for you.

Then a few days later, landed on the UK Ama­zon site while pur­su­ing info about a Frenchie item. Thought of the cheese chew. Did a search. Ta da! UK Ama­zon sold it and for a slightly lower ship­ping price. “Hum… won­der if the UK site works with my US Ama­zon account?” Tap, tap, tap. Ama­zon UK likes US dol­lars and will even do the price con­ver­sion for you. Go fig­ure!

So placed an order for a cou­ple of chews and patiently waited the week or so for the pack­age to arrive via Royal Mail.

Ghost acts as let­ter opener.

Upon arrival, Ghost imme­di­ately helped open the customs-sticker adorned pack­age with its hand­writ­ten dec­la­ra­tion of dog chews. (Pretty darn clever for a dog that can’t read.)

After open­ing the pack­age, we snapped some pic­tures of the unmo­lested prod­uct, then tossed one to the dogs. Funny how Ghost was stand­ing first in line…

After he’d been hap­pily chew­ing on it for a bit, we won­dered how it stood up to the Himalayan yak milk chew our guys like. So, while this was not done in proper sci­en­tific fash­ion, tossed a half-chewed ver­sion in front of him. As you can see in the photo, no inter­est. Of greater note, there is a B-A-L-L behind him and he’s ignor­ing that for the K9 Chew. This is far more remarkable.

Ghost hard at work prod­uct testing.

Rota­tion of the K9 Chew through the Ebul­lient Crew met with approval at each stop. Mandie did her Happy Pounce dance when it came her turn, then set­tled in and gave it a good, solid chomp­ing. Tossed other chews into the mix. Nope. No sway­ing from the prize of the moment.

Mandie proves she can chomp, just as well as, the boys.

In the close-up pic­ture below, you can see the color and slight tex­ture dif­fer­ence between the K9 Chew and the Himalayan chew. The K9 Chew doesn’t have the darker, cheesier color the yak milk chew gets from its smok­ing process. Kinda like the dif­fer­ence between Swiss and Gouda. Either way, not a bad thing as nei­ther chew seems to stain paws.

And the last photo is of the back of the label. Click it to make it big­ger and eas­ier to read. (In fact, all these pho­tos can be made larger with a click.)

What’s the ver­dict? The dogs loved this chew. To the point of stand­ing and star­ing at the last known point of place­ment. You know how it goes: dog looks at you…looks at counter…looks at you…looks back at counter; all with sad, plead­ing puppy dog eyes. The other impor­tant item of note, no tummy upsets or exces­sive methane pro­duc­tion. Happy dog, happy humans.

Now why were we being mean and putting it away? Because this chew goes fast! Really fast. With judi­cious shar­ing, our guys enjoyed the two chews for about a week. It may be a tough chew, but bull­dog peo­ple know, their dog’s jaws are tougher. And while it may be due to the new­ness fac­tor, they seemed to stick with this chew longer than the Himalayan chew, adding to its dis­ap­pear­ance factor.

Would we get this again? Yes, but it cer­tainly would nice to elim­i­nate the high ship­ping fee since they have such a short chew life. (Hint, hint to all you US retail­ers.) It’s a nice mix along with the longer-lasting Himalayan chews.

Color com­par­i­son between the High­land K9 Chew, left, to a partially-chewed Himalayan Dog Chew, right.

Back of the High­land K9 Chew label. Click to enlarge image.

How this chew stacks up with our Crew:

Inter­ested enough to order some? Order High­land K9 Chews from their site or from Ama­zon UK. As we found out, if you have a US Ama­zon account, it WILL allow you to pur­chase from the UK site.

High­land K9 Dog Chew — web­site
Their site has a cur­rency con­verter for US Dol­lars, Euros, and British Pounds.

High­land K9 Dog Chew — avail­able thru Amazon.co.UK
Click on the images below. They are sold in pack­ages of one or two.
   

Since we com­pared the K9 Chew to the Himalayan Dog Chew, here’s a link to their site and prod­uct. Def­i­nitely another prod­uct wor­thy of con­sid­er­a­tion by your pooch!

Himalayan Dog Chew — website

Himalayan Dog Chew — avail­able thru Amazon.com