Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice - Phoenix

Lap of Love helps families and their pets in Phoenix with veterinary end-of-life care in the comfort of their home. Our compassionate and experienced doctors exclusively provide in-home euthanasia and hospice services, which focuses on comfort care and pain management for your pet. Through our telehospice service, a hospice veterinarian can have a comprehensive conversation about your dog or cat's quality of life. Some of our veterinarians are experienced with certain exotic species as well

Dr. Dani McVety started Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice in 2009 shortly after graduating from veterinary school while practicing emergency medicine in her hometown of Tampa, FL. After helping countless families through the loss of their pets, she felt an immense inspiration to combine her previous experience as a human hospice volunteer with her love of people and a desire to make the experience of losing a pet as peaceful as it can possibly be. In 2010, Lap of Love grew quickly as word spread about a new way for pet parents to say goodbye; Dr. McVety contacted her good friend and veterinary school classmate, Dr. Mary Gardner, to help expand Lap of Love nationwide. Dr. Gardner joined as co-founder, applying her decade of software design experience to lead the development of the company's proprietary practice management software. In 2011, Lap of Love welcomed their first veterinarian outside Florida, in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2013, Lap of Love expanded to serve 20 states, and Drs. McVety and Gardner taught multiple hours at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine's first End of Life course offered to senior veterinary students. In 2015 Lap of Love established its dedicated Support Center. The team grew to over 100 doctors in 2017 and over 200 doctors by 2020, when Lap of Love rolled out a Telehospice service; in 2021 Lap of Love launched dedicated Pet Loss Support services. By 2023 Lap of Love's team grew to over 300 doctors nationwide and Lap of Love launched an internal Certified Veterinary Hospice and Euthanasia Practitioner course

Mission — We believe all pets deserve peaceful end-of-life experiences. Lap of Love is a network of veterinarians around the country with the goal of empowering every owner to care for their geriatric pets. Our philosophy centers around the human-animal bond and the need for that bond to be as undisturbed as possible during this most difficult time. The desire to bring this important service to families across the United States is slowly being realized as additional veterinarians begin working under the same philosophy. At Lap of Love, we firmly believe in the inherent value of diversity and inclusivity and are committed to providing our services with respect, compassion, dignity, and equality for all families that reach out to us!