Drover Dog Food Review
Drover is a shambles found on the shelves of PetBarn, and would be better off in the bin than your dog’s stomach. Not recommended, but if you want to know why feel free to read on…
Salt is the third ingredient, and given it sits around 1% of the product that tells us the first two ingredients amount to pretty much all of it. The first is the worst possible ingredient we find in a food for a carnivorous animal, and that’s cereal and cereal by-products. What better way for milling companies to dispose of their waste other than turn it into the profit machine known as “dog food”. It’d made by CopRice after all, a grain company not a dog food company.
The second ingredient is ambiguous meat and meat and meat by-products, which will be some parts of cow or chicken, and not likely the good parts.
They’ve also added in vitamins and minerals, simply because it’s legally required to palm this stuff off as “complete and balanced”, and surprisingly they’ve gone to the effort of sprinkling in a trace amount of kelp and garlic. That’s probably for your benefit – “Oooo, this wonderful food has kelp and garlic in it!”.
Yeah, nah.
The only positive thing I can say about the product is the dog on the packaging is beautiful, but I bet he’s fed something better than this.
Oh, and I noticed on the PetBarn website this terrible product has two 5 star reviews. Ironically they’re both by the same person, submitted twice. Just a reminded if a dog eats a product it doesn’t mean it’s good. It’s not.
Where to buy
Drover dry dog food is available at Petbarn
Ingredients
Whole grain cereals and cereal by-products (Rice, Wheat and/or Sorghum), Meat and meat by-products (Beef and Chicken), Salt, Calcium carbonate, Vitamins (A, D3, E, K, B1, B2, B6, C, Biotin, Pantothenate, Folic acid, Niacin, B12), Trace minerals (Copper, Iodine, Manganese, Iron, Selenium, Zinc), Kelp, Yucca schidigera extract, Garlic, Natural antioxidant, Mixed organic acids.
Well mate you talk as if your a legend and got shares in another brand. I think the opposite to you. In my world its all about a balanced diet and the Drover dry food is fine by me and my 10 year old Lab. So per day I feed her 1/2 cup drover dry for breky, Kangaroo back bone for lunch and 1/2 cup of Drover dry food and a 1 ” slice of beef/ veggie sausage for dinner. She is a good looking healthy girl that everyone thinks is about 3 years old and gets rave reviews from the Vet. Interesting that her favourite food is the dry food. If you just feed a dog any of the dry foods only, well maybe you shouldn’t have a dog.
I bought this about 3 weeks ago and it’s going rancid in the food barrel I keep it in,so before reading all these informative comments it will be relegated to the rubbish.
Well I can say I will never feed this junk to any of my dogs again, my dog was healthy then I thought I’d get this since it was cheap and sold at petbarn so must be safe. Then my dog started getting fat and bloated then a year later died from tumours. Not saying it’s from the dry food but it’s funny how he started having heath problems on this food.
David you’ve written this negative review about drovers in anonymity and yet your site seeks name and email address for those who reply. The problem in not declaring identity is it naturally leads to, at the very least, the perception of a conflict of interest. Professional critics and reviewers declare their identity, your hiding under the desk, your credibility is under that desk with you.
Fed this to my dog and he got superpowers and can now talk to me telepathically and is now the sole bread winner, I don’t even need to work anymore. Would never use another brand of food this is a super food for a super dog only 12 months and he now has super strength!!! This is not for weak or spoilt lap mutts, but real working dogs!
Hi Michael, thank you for the feedback.
Personally I don’t consider a dog food product with the prime ingredient of cereals and cereal by-products a good diet for an animal I class as a facultative carnivore.
3 rottweilers have been on this food for 1 year so far and they are the healthiest they have ever been..never had them at the vets other than the usual check ups etc. This article screams ‘I have shares in an expensive dog food company and I’m pissed people are buying this good dog food and not our nasty expensive stuff’
Hi Nunya, I can assure you I don’t have shares in any pet food company, and the reviews are unbiased.
From understanding pet food formulations, and from dealing with many pet owners over the past almost two decades, I can confidently say I wouldn’t feed my own dog a dry processed kibble made mostly of cereal grains like wheat.
One year on a food isn’t very long, but I’m glad they appear to be healthy. What I would advise – which will hopefully be a productive suggestion – is to feed your Rottweilers some fresh meats, organs, eggs, sardines, or appropriate raw meaty bones as part of their diet (possibly around 20%). You may dispute this review, but I’m sure you can’t dispute how real foods your dogs would instinctively eat are bad advice?
Well if all of the other brands weren’t so bloody dear maybe i would buy them. I have no choice but to buy the cheap nasty dry food. Surprise people my dogs will eat this brand more than the expensive brands. Another reason to buy cheap brands no wastage.
I work at Petbarn and I can assure you I would never recommend this. The only people who buy this are the ones who don’t care what their dog eats as long as it’s cheap as chips. It’s a shame because we sell cheap food like Leaps and Bounds that is way better