Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice - San Jose

Lap of Love provides families and their pets with veterinary end-of-life care in San Jose and the surrounding neighborhoods. Our services include in-home euthanasia and veterinary hospice, which addresses care and pain management from the comfort of your home with our experienced, compassionate veterinarians. Through our telehospice service, you can speak directly with a hospice veterinarian about your dog or cat's quality of life. Some of our doctors are experienced with certain exotic species as well

Lap of Love was founded in 2009. Dr. Dani McVety started Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice 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, as word spread, 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. 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. In 2015, they established their dedicated Support Center. As of 2017, the team grew to over 100 doctors nationwide. In 2018, Lap of Love expanded to serve 30 states. In 2020, during COVID, Lap of Love rolled out a Telehospice service and the team grew to over 200 doctors. In 2021, Lap of Love launched dedicated Pet Loss Support services. As of 2023, the 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