PETCO Schedules First Quarter 2006 Earnings Release

SAN DIEGO, May 17  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc. (NASDAQ:PETC) today announced that it would report financial results for the first quarter 2006 ended April 29, 2006 on May 24, 2006, at 1:00 P.M. PT (4:00 P.M. ET).  The company has scheduled a conference call to discuss the results on May 24, 2006 at 2:00 P.M. PT (5:00 P.M. ET).

A simulcast, or replay, of the conference call over the Internet will be available via the company's website at http://www.petco.com/.

About PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc.

PETCO is a leading specialty retailer of premium pet food, supplies and services.  PETCO's vision is to best promote, through its people, the highest level of well being for companion animals, and to support the human-animal bond.  PETCO generated net sales of $2 billion in fiscal 2005.  It operates approximately 800 stores in 49 states and the District of Columbia, as well as a leading destination for on-line pet food and supplies at http://www.petco.com/. Since its inception in 1999, The PETCO Foundation, PETCO's non-profit organization, has raised more than $28 million in support of more than 3,300 non-profit grassroots animal welfare organizations around the nation.

  Contact:  S. Chaith Kondragunta
            Director, Investor Relations
            [phone]


DATASOURCE: PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc.



CONTACT:  S. Chaith Kondragunta, Director, Investor Relations of PETCO

Animal Supplies, Inc., [phone]



Web site:  http://www.petco.com/ 

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