Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice (Las Vegas)

Lap of Love provides families and their pets with veterinary end-of-life care in Las Vegas. 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. 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

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 began receiving calls and emails from families and veterinarians nationwide looking for similar services in their area. It was quickly apparent that Lap of Love was meant to be bigger than just Tampa, Florida! 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. 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 offered to senior veterinary students, focused specifically on hospice and euthanasia of all animal species. 2015: Lap of Love established its 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; Lap of Love has sat at the bedside of more than 100,000 pets and their families. 2020: Lap of Love quickly rolled out a Telehospice service, providing telemedical advice to families nationwide; team grows to over 200 doctors nationwide; more than 250,000 pets and their families. 2021: more than 400,000 pets and their families; launches dedicated Pet Loss Support services; launches 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; 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!