EXPLANATORY NOTE
Pursuant to General Instruction E of FormS-8, this Registration Statement on FormS-8 is being filed in order to register an additional 2,000,000 shares of the common stock of PetIQ, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), that may be awarded under the PetIQ, Inc. Amended and Restated 2017 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), par value $0.001 per share, which are securities of the same class and relate to the same employee benefit plan as those shares registered on the Registrant’s registration statement on FormS-8 previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on July 26, 2017 (RegistrationNo. 333-219455), which is hereby incorporated by reference.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
We shall send or give to each participant in the Plan the document(s) containing the information specified in Part I of FormS-8 as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act. In accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC, such documents are not being filed with or included in this Registration Statement. These documents, and the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The following documents filed by the Registrant with the SEC are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:
| (a) | the Registrant’s Annual Report onForm10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, filed with the SEC on March 12, 2019; |
| (b) | the Registrant’s Quarterly Report onForm10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2019, filed with the SEC on May 9, 2019; |
| (c) | the Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement onSchedule 14A, filed on April 16, 2019; |
| (d) | the Registrant’s Current Report onForm8-K filed with the SEC on May 8, 2019 (Items 1.01 and 9.01); and |
| (e) | the description of the Registrant’s Class A common stock, $0.001 par value per share, contained in its Registration Statement onForm8-A filed with the SEC on July 20, 2017 pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, including any subsequent amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description. |
All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless specifically stated to the contrary, none of the information disclosed by the Registrant under Items 2.02 or 7.01 of any Current Report on Form8-K that the Registrant may from time to time furnish to the SEC will be incorporated by reference into, or otherwise included in, this Registration Statement. Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.