Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice & In-Home Euthanasia

I grew up on a small family farm in the beautiful hills of the Napa Valley, in northern California, with a short stint on the equally beautiful island of Kodiak, Alaska. I spent my youth roaming and exploring in California and Alaska, with my border collie, Thor, at my side. 

At the age of 14, I began spending my summers working on a cattle ranch on Kodiak Island, and continued through high school and into college. There I gained an interest in veterinary medicine, spending much of one summer caring for calves poisoned by eating lupine, and cattle injured by Kodiak bears. 

I prepared for veterinary school as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University in Utah, and attended veterinary school at Purdue University in Indiana, graduating in 1987. I have worked in many areas of the veterinary profession, from small and large animal practice, to laboratory animal medicine in the US Army Veterinary Corps and the pharmaceutical industry, to food safety assurance with the USDA, to teaching in veterinary technician training programs. 

During my private practice years, I enjoyed engaging with pet owners as much as with pets. I have cherished the poignant opportunities to advise and support families through difficult decision periods, when they must balance their ill or injured pet’s well-being against their desire to have their pet with them for as long as possible. As pet guardians, we have the privilege and responsibility of providing a peaceful passing for our pets, in order to protect them from avoidable suffering. 

I am thrilled to be part of the Lap of Love family, where I can provide a loving and peaceful passing for pets, as I have been able to do for mine. I currently share my life with my rambunctious parti-color poodle, Moseley, and my precious Welsh corgi, Babu. I am unable to fathom the time when I must say goodbye to either of them, hoping that they are either taken swiftly, or are provided a peaceful passing on my Lap of Love.