Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice & In-Home Euthanasia

Lap of Love offers veterinary end-of-life care services in Northern Virginia. 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. Our veterinarians proudly service Northern Virginia, Washington DC, and parts of Maryland surrounding the DC metropolitan area

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 (2009). 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 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: welcomed their first veterinarian outside Florida, in Charlotte, North Carolina. 2013: expanded to serve 20 states; Drs McVety and Gardner taught at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine's first End of Life course. 2015: established the dedicated Support Center. 2017: team grew to over 100 doctors nationwide. 2018: expanded to serve 30 states; received the first-ever Innovative Practice of the Year award from the Veterinary Innovation Council. 2020: rolled out a Telehospice service; team grew to over 200 doctors nationwide. 2021: launched dedicated Pet Loss Support services. 2022: featured in the award-winning documentary "The Hardest Day." 2023: team grows to over 300 doctors nationwide; 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. The desire to bring this important service to families across the United States is slowly being realized as additional veterinarians begin working under the same philosophy. 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!