Pet Medicine Home Delivery Report

2026 Edition | Version 2.0

Understand the market, compare providers and review your approach to pet prescription home delivery.

Explore how pet owners buy medicines and how retailers, pharmacies and distributors serve them. Use the evidence to review pharmacy services, assess partners and evaluate sales channels.

Ninety pages of US companion animal market research and analysis presented in twenty-six chapters.

Free for qualifying veterinary and animal health professionals and credentialed investors.

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What you'll find inside

Purchasing patterns and market estimates

Review owners' reported purchasing sources, pharmacy preferences and published market estimates, with notes explaining what each measure covers.

Roles behind home delivery

Compare the roles of retailers, veterinarians, pharmacies and distributors, including who receives orders, approves prescriptions, dispenses medicines and arranges delivery.

Service launches and ownership changes

Review the report's coverage of Amazon's service with Vetsource, Chewy's Modern Animal acquisition and the proposed combination of MWI Animal Health and Covetrus.

Guidance for your business

Find dedicated chapters for independent veterinary practices, corporate groups, distributors, home delivery providers, animal health brand leaders and investors.

Questions for further research

See the evidence needed to measure prescription sales through home delivery, operators' prescription revenue and production pay for online pharmacy sales.

How the report uses evidence

The report builds on the 2024 Pet Medicine Home Delivery Study and brings together published research, company disclosures and market estimates. Source notes explain what the evidence measures and where its findings apply.

It reviews 2024 and 2025 reporting periods and selected later developments available through October 5, 2026.

Contributors

Richard Hayworth. Study lead and principal author.

Robert Woods. Editor and contributing author.