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The dog was also due to be euthanized, but Chrissy vowed to be the dog's hospice foster, even if it was only for a day. Related: 18-Year-Old Hospice Dog Begging Foster Mom for Cookies Is Everything
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Lauren visited the bridge this summer to leave the collar of her dog, Moa, a Great Pyrenees who passed away earlier this year at the age of 5. Courtesy White Creek Photography
Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice is a family-centered veterinary hospice and in-home animal euthanasia service, recognized as the first organized group of its kind in America. [1] The company is a member of the International Association for Animal Hospice and Palliative Care, and it operates in 37 states.
The organization has seen that many dogs of advanced years are rejected by owners, or are left behind when an elderly owner must move to an independent or assisted living facility or a nursing home: these animals are often left at animal shelters—where their chance of adoption is negligible—or pass to family or friends who are not prepared to deal with the needs of an older dog.
The Rainbow Bridge is a meadow where animals wait for their humans to join them, and the bridge that takes them all to Heaven, together. The Rainbow Bridge is the theme of several works written first in 1959, then in the 1980s and 1990s, that speak of an other-worldly place where pets go upon death, eventually to be reunited with their owners.
The U.S. hospice industry has quadrupled in size since 2000. Nearly half of all Medicare patients who die now do so as a hospice patient — twice as many as in 2000, government data shows.
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