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

Lap of Love provides families and their pets with veterinary end-of-life care in Raleigh. Our services include in-home euthanasia and veterinary hospice, which addresses care and pain management from the comfort of your home with our experienced, compassionate veterinarians. Through our telehospice service, you can speak directly with a hospice veterinarian about your dog or cat's quality of life. Some of our doctors are experienced with certain exotic species as well. 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. Our veterinarians proudly service Raleigh and the surrounding neighborhoods. Due to the expansive area covered, there may be a $30 - $100 fee based on your location. If this is a medical emergency, please contact your local veterinarian or one of the emergency clinics listed in the Local Resources section

Lap of Love was founded by Dr. Dani McVety, who 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 began receiving calls and emails from families and veterinarians nationwide, and 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. In 2011 Lap of Love welcomed their first veterinarian outside Florida, in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2013 Lap of Love expanded to serve 20 states, and Drs. McVety and Gardner taught multiple hours at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine's first End of Life course offered to senior veterinary students. In 2015 Lap of Love established a dedicated Support Center to assist families over the phone. In 2017 the team grew to over 100 doctors nationwide. In 2018 Lap of Love expanded to serve 30 states and received the first-ever Innovative Practice of the Year award from the Veterinary Innovation Council. In 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 hospice veterinarians, and the team grew to over 200 doctors nationwide. In 2021 Lap of Love launched dedicated Pet Loss Support services. In 2022 Lap of Love was featured in the award-winning documentary "The Hardest Day." In 2023 Lap of Love's team grew to over 300 doctors nationwide and Lap of Love launched an internal Certified Veterinary Hospice and Euthanasia Practitioner course, 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. Lap of Love is honored to have some of the most compassionate and empathetic vets working with us. 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! Because pets are family. That's why we do this