Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice (Annapolis/Baltimore)

Lap of Love helps families in the Annapolis and Baltimore areas with end-of-life care for their pets. Our compassionate and experienced veterinarians provide services such as euthanasia and veterinary hospice, which addresses comfort care and pain management, along with telehospice services to address the quality of life for your sweet dog or cat from the comfort of your home. We can also assist with some of your exotic pets. 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

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, and 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 and Drs McVety and Gardner teach at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine's first End of Life course. 2015: Lap of Love established its dedicated Support Center. 2017: Lap of Love's team grows to over 100 doctors nationwide and has sat at the bedside of more than 100,000 pets. 2018: Lap of Love expands to serve 30 states and receives the first-ever Innovative Practice of the Year award from the Veterinary Innovation Council. 2020: Lap of Love rolled out a Telehospice service; team grows to over 200 doctors; more than 250,000 pets. 2021: more than 400,000 pets; launches dedicated Pet Loss Support services and a Senior Pet Care blog. 2022: Lap of Love is featured in the award-winning documentary "The Hardest Day." 2023: Lap of Love's team grows to over 300 doctors nationwide and Lap of Love 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. 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!