Income Taxes - PetIQ, LLC and Subsidiaries (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Jun. 30, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Pet, LLC and Subsidiaries (the "Company")
Deferred tax assets	$ 452	$ 482

Amount after allocation of valuation allowances of deferred tax asset attributable to deductible temporary differences and carryforwards.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 740
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (b),(c)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84230637&loc=d3e32537-109319

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