Ol Roy Dog Food
October 3, 2008
Filed under Dog Food Reviews, Ol Roy Dog Food Recall, Ol' Roy
Thinking about feeding your dog Ol’ Roy dog food? If so please think again. Ol’ Roy dog food and treats have been involved in numerous dog food recalls. Ol’ Roy Dog Food is manufactured by Wal-Mart. The brand is named after the dog of Wal-Mart’s owner, Sam Walton. The Ol’ Roy Dog Food formulas are well-known among dog owners in the United States because it’s quite inexpensive compared to other popular brands. However, the dog food brand has received a lot of negative feedback because of its low quality ingredients as well as the controversy when it tested positive to the presence of Pentobarbital. We do not recommend this dog food brand and believe it is in the lowest tier in terms of quality.
The Ol’ Roy Dog product lines now include six kibbles and each formula has been designed to meet the AAFCO nutrient profiles required for all life stages.
First five Ol’ Roy dog food Ingredients:
- Ground yellow corn
- soybean meal
- ground whole wheat
- corn syrup
- poultry fat
Although there are different product formulas, they share the same low-quality and controversial basal ingredients. The first five ingredients include ground yellow corn, soybean meal, ground whole meat or meat and bone meal, corn syrup, and poultry fat or chicken by-product meal.
Corn is a common first ingredient among the different Ol’ Roy dog food formulas. Dogs do not need corn as their main source of nutrients. Although it is a rich carbohydrate source, corn which is used for dog food are usually of the livestock feed grade. Another reason to be wary about having corn in the top five ingredients is that corn has been linked to food allergies in dogs.
Meat and bone meal is a good source of meat concentrates, in fact much better than raw meat, but there is a question regarding the source of the components of the meal. The usual practice in feed industries is to make meat and bone meal from animal tissues which have been deemed unsuitable for human food. The meal is actually made of rendered animal products including stomach contents, bones, skin, manure, hair, hoof or horns. Compared to other meat-based meals, meat and bone meal has a lower digestibility and thus cannot be fully metabolized and used by the dog’s body.
Soybean meal is a by-product when extracting soybean oil. Although it contains 48% protein, it is still a plant-based protein, one which is not efficiently assimilated and utilized thus it is considered of low biological value.
Chicken by-product meal is also another ingredient made from dry rendered products of slaughterhouse waste. Once the prime cuts of dressed chicken have been removed, what’s left are made into an unsavory chicken by-product meal, which, just like any by-product meal uses ingredients declared unfit for human consumption.
Animal fat is another by-product of rendering. Since it does not specify what animal the fat is from, it could come from any source including slaughterhouse waste or even restaurant grease.
As though using meat by-products is not bad enough, preserving fat with BHA further brings the quality of the dog food formulas to a much lower level. BHA has been identified as a carcinogen not only in people but in animals as well. Another controversial ingredient is the addition of artificial food color which is another suspected carcinogen.
There is no mention of the incorporation of probiotics or beneficial microorganisms which have been associated with boosting the process of digestion.
Customer Reviews
Any Ol’ Roy dog food formula often receives praise when it comes to its price. However, the high rating stops there. Many dog owners are not satisfied with the questionable and low-fat ingredients which are incorporated in their dog foods.
There are reports of digestive upsets including vomiting and diarrhea as well as of dogs having rough and dry hair coats.
A lot of people decide to buy Ol Roy dog food based on the fact that it is cheap. Thinking like this will catch up to you in vet bills. Your going to take your dog to the vet twice as much as you would if you fed your dog a healthier brand of food.
When looking for dog food, look for a brand that has at least two sources of meat in the first five ingredients, and contains no corn or grains.
First of all, I love my dog. I had no idea this dog food was that bad. I pulled this page up to check the food out and one of the first comments I see is some crazy woman slamming people. Bigdogmom needs learn some etiquette. I believe she also needs use her brain before typing. There is no sense in offending someone you have never met. I have a very picky dog. I do not want him to starve to death, so we keep trying different foods to get him to eat. I think that makes me a good dog owner. Rannmiller at least had the sense to make a qualifying statement afterwords. Bigdogmom probably doesn’t even know what qualifying means. It’s not nice to make snap judgments now is it. You could accidentally hurt some one by doing so, don’t you think.
To Loves my Dogs:
What makes you think Kibbles & Bits are any better then O’l Roy it’s maybe 1 or 2 notchs higher then O’l Roy.
All you people need to start reading ingredients on the dog food.
Remember Dog food companies market to the human not the dog. Pretty pictures of Dogs and Vegetables on the bags are meant to fool the so called intelligent humans.
To those that say “my dogs love it!”
Of course it’s got sweeteners!
Look at kids and sweetened cereal..
Duh!
I asked a top level musher what type of kibble he fed. He told me he didn’t feed that crap, even though he was sponsered by a popular brand name.He told me he fed a race mix. Which meant raw with vits & mins added. “ALL” those dogfoods are no better, all the nutrients are cooked off and added back again during the final stage. I have 2 eight year old dogs that are fed ol roy and they are bouncing around like puppies. Exercise is the key to good health. keep your dogfood fresh in a sealed container. wether it is rancid eagle brand or ol roy it doesn,t matter. Also don,t justify paying $60.00 a bag, that,s not giving the consumer the upper hand.If you can’t sell your product you have to lower your price or go out of buisness.
i have a BLM that was 6 in Feb of this year. other than some arthritis, he is as healthy as any dog anywhere. he retrieves many many ducks and doves every year. he has been eating Ol Roy for about 90% of his life and has never missed a beat(he gets a few table scraps from time to time too). and that comment about “people who feed Ol Roy don’t take their dog to the vet” is a crock of shit. My dog goes to the vet on a regular basis and has been checked out fine every time he has been. if you think your dog is “better” because you feed him science diet or wild blue or any of that other high dollar crap, you’re crazy…
my dogs have eatin alot grosser things then corn and sugar. if you get my meaning
we started buying ol’roy dog food for our short hair pointer about a month ago, wnd we notice she did not like it very much, but she ended eating it until we notice five days ago thst she was vomiting right after she ate, she was also getting flaky skin and her coat was not as shiny as before. so we boght her innova dog food and she seems to like it much better than that other cheap, horrible brand,and best of all she did not throw up anymore. I wont ever buy this brand any more.
My dogs have been eating Ol Roy Maximum for 2 years now and they love it. The first ingredient on the package is chicken, so that is why we bought it. They wont eat anything else, and living in a small town the dog food is expensive and you cant buy the Maximum in the store. We have to go to the city to buy it.
Well, now after my bragging about it……..I went to feed my dogs this morning and in the bottom of the bowl were worms. I have the dogfood in an airtight container and opened it up, and there were quite a few of the little wigglers. Now this absolutely grosses me out.
This was a brand new bag that I bought and I am making a special trip to the city and throw the dog food in the retailers face. I definately will be looking for a better dog food that my dogs will eat.
can someone tell me how chicken soup for the puppy lovers’s soul large breed puppy formula compare to cesar millan puppy formula
I do not know what you are talking about that corn is no good for a dog, if it is no good then why are the bigger companies putting it in their food? DUH!!!!
All vegetables are good for a dog I have a 24 years old cross breed who loves ol roy and has ate her vegies everyday of her life including corn and some of the other ingredients that you find in OL ROY
Go OL ROY
I will never feed my dog’s Ol Roy ever! I may not feed them the ultimate best food, but Ol Roy is the worst of the worst. I have fed them Iam’s since they were weaned, and they are the healthiest I have ever seen a dog. Both of them are purebred Basset Hounds and they are doing just great on an Iam’s diet.
Our Great Danes eat Ol’Roy’s ‘Kibbles & Chunks & Chew’ and LOVE it (and how could I not love it at the price due to the amount of dog feed we go through?). My female dane will not eat anything else.
Ol Roy is one of the worst foods on the market! Why do large companies put corn in their food? Because its cheap. The protein in corn is not digestible. It’s simply a filler, meaning it has absolutely no nutritional value. It is also linked to a number of allergies in dogs. As is wheat and soy, which you will find in ol roy. And the protein content is “meat and bone meal”. What the hell is that? Can you tell me what your dog is eating based on that? Is it chicken? Or beef? Maybe its cat. It could be dog. And thats not an exaggeration. Maxximum is not ol roy. It’s made by the same company and while its forula is better than ol roy its quality control is the same crap found in any high volume food distributor. Before you stand up for anything do your research.
why do dog food companies put corn in their food? Cause its cheap! DUH! and your dog is not 24 yrs old. that would be a world record.
My one year old dog has been eating ole roy since he was a puppy. He has now started to have seizures. We took him to the vet and they feel it is possibly due to the dog food. I will never buy Ole Roy again.