Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice & In-Home Euthanasia - Tallahassee

Lap of Love assists families and their pets throughout Tallahassee and the surrounding neighborhoods, as well as Southwest Georgia, including Thomasville and Bainbridge. 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. Lap of Love Veterinary Care Coordinators are here to answer your questions 24/7, every day of the year, including weekends and holidays. Appointments with our veterinarians 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

Creation story: 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 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. 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. 2015 — established a 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 and has sat at the bedside of more than 100,000 pets and their families since being founded in 2009. 2018 — expands to serve 30 states; receives the first-ever Innovative Practice of the Year award and Best in Show from the Veterinary Innovation Council. 2019 — ranks 11 on the Gator100, its highest ranking to date. 2020 — rolled out a Telehospice service providing telemedical advice to families nationwide; team grows to over 200 doctors. 2021 — launches dedicated Pet Loss Support services and a Senior Pet Care blog. 2022 — featured in the award-winning documentary "The Hardest Day." 2023 — team grows to over 300 doctors nationwide and launches 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. Pets are our best friends. They pick us up when we are down, and they never, ever take a day off from being by our side. And this is why pets deserve a peaceful and personal end-of-life experience. This is why we help them leave this earthly existence the way they want to—in the comfort of their homes, in the warm embrace of their favorite people