Lap of Love Hampton Roads

Lap of Love provides families and their pets with veterinary end-of-life care in the Greater Hampton Roads region of Virginia. 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

Creation story: In 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. In 2010, Lap of Love grew quickly as word spread, and 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. 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 across the country. In 2015, they established their dedicated Support Center with a team of compassionate professionals to assist families over the phone. In 2017, Lap of Love's team grew to over 100 doctors nationwide. In 2018, Lap of Love expanded to serve 30 states. In 2020, Lap of Love rolled out a Telehospice service, providing telemedical advice to families nationwide via an in-depth Quality of Life conversation with our hospice veterinarians, and its team grew to over 200 doctors nationwide. In 2021, Lap of Love launched dedicated Pet Loss Support services and a Senior Pet Care blog. 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 it launched 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!