Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice - East Bay

Lap of Love offers veterinary end-of-life care services in East Bay and the surrounding areas. Under the care of our experienced, compassionate veterinarians, we exclusively provide in-home euthanasia and hospice. Veterinary hospice specifically addresses comfort care and pain management for pets. Our telehospice service allows you to speak with a veterinarian to discuss your pet's quality of life. Some of our doctors are experienced with certain exotic species as well. We are here to answer your questions every day, from 4 am - 8 pm. Appointments are scheduled throughout the week, please call for availability. Sometimes pets take a turn for the worse overnight or in a short amount of time, so we do our best to accommodate same day appointments with a few hours notice, but cannot guarantee that. If this is a medical emergency, please contact your local veterinarian or one of the emergency clinics listed in the Local Resources section. Our veterinarians proudly service East Bay. Due to the expansive area covered, there may be an extended travel fee of $30-$100 based on your location

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. 2010: Lap of Love grew quickly as word spread about a new way for pet parents to say goodbye. Dr. McVety began receiving calls and emails from families and veterinarians nationwide looking for similar services in their area. Dr. McVety contacted her good friend and veterinary school classmate, Dr. Mary Gardner, to help expand Lap of Love nationwide. Dr. Gardner immediately felt the connection with Lap of Love's service and joined as co-founder, applying her decade of software design experience to lead the development of the company's proprietary practice management software. 2011: Lap of Love welcomes their first veterinarian outside Florida, in Charlotte, North Carolina. 2013: Lap of Love expands to serve 20 states across the country. Drs McVety and Gardner teach multiple hours at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine's first End of Life course offered to senior veterinary students, focused specifically on hospice and euthanasia of all animal species. They have helped teach the course every year since. 2015: As our service grew, we knew our doctors needed help answering phone calls from families requesting assistance. In 2015 we established our dedicated Support Center with a team of compassionate professionals to assist families over the phone. 2017: Lap of Love's team grows to over 100 doctors nationwide! 2018: Lap of Love expands to serve 30 states across the country. Lap of Love receives the first-ever Innovative Practice of the Year award from the Veterinary Innovation Council, a division of the North American Veterinary Community. 2020: As COVID descended upon the world, Lap of Love quickly rolled out a Telehospice service, providing telemedical advice to families nationwide via an in-depth Quality of Life conversation with our hospice veterinarians. Lap of Love's team grows to over 200 doctors nationwide! 2021: Lap of Love launches dedicated Pet Loss Support services for anyone who has experienced the loss of a pet. Lap of Love launches a Senior Pet Care blog. 2022: Lap of Love is featured in the award-winning documentary "The Hardest Day." The film focuses on the power of the human-animal bond in its last moments and those who help navigate along the way. 2023: Lap of Love's team grows to over 300 doctors nationwide! Lap of Love launches an internal Certified Veterinary Hospice and Euthanasia Practitioner course. This is the most rigorous certification process solely focused on end-of-life veterinary care at this time

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. We are a passionate network of nationwide veterinarians. Because pets are family. That's why we do this