Australia’s third-biggest pet store brand PetO could double its footprint in WA in as little as three years, says its co-founder, who is buoyed by the State’s fast-growing population.

PetO already has 11 stores in WA after scooping up 41 retail stores and 25 vet clinics nationally from Petstock last year.

The deal — which followed Petstock’s decision to divest several locations to allow Woolworths to snap up a majority state — bolstered PetO’s footprint beyond the 17 stores it originally had in its NSW homebase and provided a presence in WA, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania and the ACT.

Now PetO co-founder Nick Greenhalgh has ambitions to grow its WA footprint to up to 22 stores within three to five years.

That compares with the near-70 locations market incumbents Petbarn and Petstock ha

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