PetMed Express is an online pharmacy that sells prescription and non-prescription pet medication and nutritional supplements.

[6] Puleo was an anesthesiologist who wanted to open a mail-order business for human prescriptions that also sold pet accessories.

[7] He shifted his focus to pet medicines due to Merck already heavily controlling the human prescription market.

[13] Also in 2002, PetMed Express, this time with Savemax, the company reached a settlement with the Florida Pharmacy Board for contracting with veterinarians to write prescriptions for animals they had never examined.

[14] In November 2002 the pharmacy board in Texas filed a lawsuit charging PetMed Express with dispensing veterinary drugs without prescriptions.

[6] Another shareholder lawsuit was filed against the company in 2018, claiming that it marketed dangerous animal drugs to humans.

[18] As announced by PetMed Express Inc. in a regulatory filing published on Friday, June 4, 2021, Menderes Akdag, chief executive officer, leaves the online pet pharmacy after around 20 years in the role.

Hulett entered into a three-year employment agreement with PetMed Express at a $500,000 base salary per year.