Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice (Kansas City)

Lap of Love offers veterinary end-of-life care services in the greater Kansas City area. 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. 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. Our veterinarians proudly service the greater Kansas City area. Due to the expansive area covered, there may be an extended travel fee of $30-$60 based on your location

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 combined 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 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: expands to serve 20 states, and 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: team grows to over 100 doctors nationwide and has sat at the bedside of more than 100,000 pets. 2018: expands to serve 30 states; receives the first-ever Innovative Practice of the Year award from the Veterinary Innovation Council. 2020: rolled out a Telehospice service; team grows to over 200 doctors. 2021: 400,000+ pets served; launches dedicated Pet Loss Support services. 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. Because pets are family. That's why we do this