Lap of Love - Oklahoma City

Lap of Love helps families and their pets in Oklahoma City and the surrounding areas with veterinary end-of-life care in the comfort of their home. Our compassionate and experienced doctors exclusively provide in-home euthanasia and hospice services, which focuses on comfort care and pain management for your pet. Through our telehospice service, a hospice veterinarian can have a comprehensive conversation about your dog or cat's quality of life. Some of our veterinarians 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. If this is a medical emergency, please contact your local veterinarian or one of the emergency clinics listed in the Local Resources section

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, 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: Lap of Love expands to serve 20 states; 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. 2015: Lap of Love established a dedicated Support Center with a team of compassionate professionals. 2016: ranks 45 on the Gator100. 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. 2019: ranks 11 on the Gator100, its highest ranking to date. 2020: rolled out a Telehospice service and team grows to over 200 doctors nationwide. 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. 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!