Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice - Pensacola

Lap of Love assists families and their pets in Pensacola and surrounding neighborhoods with end-of-life care in the comfort of their home. Our experienced veterinarians provide compassionate care for your dog or cat, including 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 doctor to discuss your pet's quality of life. We can also assist with some exotic pets too. We are here to answer your questions every day, from 7am - 11pm. Appointments are scheduled throughout the week, please call for availability

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, 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 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. Lap of Love welcomes their first veterinarian outside Florida in Charlotte, North Carolina (2011), expanded to serve 20 states by 2013, and established its dedicated Support Center in 2015. By 2023 Lap of Love's team grew to over 300 doctors nationwide and it 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