Cooper Veterinary Hospital offers hospice and euthanasia services to pets that are terminally ill and suffering. We perform these services with the tenderness and expert care that you would expect for your much-loved animal companion. Navigating through the final days with your declining senior pet or a pet that has been diagnosed with a terminal illness is one of the most difficult experiences a pet parent goes through. During these painful times, it is most important to focus on making their last days calm and loving with as little discomfort as possible.
Pet hospice is an option when you have exhausted all treatment alternatives, and a cure is not possible. The goal at this stage is to make your pet’s final days more pleasant through the use of pain medication, dietary strategies, and human love and attention. We will work with you to help you provide the home care needed to keep your pet as comfortable as possible.
Cooper Veterinary Hospital provides euthanasia services for pets who have been evaluated and who have been determined to be suffering, have a poor quality of life, and/or are in the end stages of life. Euthanasia provides a painless, humane, and gentle death that puts an end to their suffering. Our veterinarian’s method for euthanasia is equivalent to undergoing general anesthesia for a surgical procedure and takes only a matter of seconds. Your pet will experience no pain and will have no awareness of the end of life.
Our veterinarian is the best person to advise you on when the time is right to euthanize. We do offer home euthanasia services to current clients only when a doctor is available. Cremation services are provided; please ask at the front desk about our options. Before you go through one more day of agonizing over your decision, please contact us about an evaluation of your pet’s condition.