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Mission of Pet Hospice
To provide end-of-life home care for pets and emotional support and education
for their families.
Hospice is not a specific place, but rather a philosophy that promotes
an alternative to death in an impersonal, clinical hospital environment.
It functions on the principle that death is a part of life and terminal
illness and death can be experienced with dignity, as an animal rests
at home with its loving family.
Goals of hospice:
Hospice is focused on giving pets a safe, caring, intimate end-of-life
experience in their familiar environment.
Hospice care focuses primarily on providing pain control and physical
and emotional comfort to the pet.
Owners are trained to attune themselves to their pet's physical and emotional
needs.
Owners are given one-on-one time to adjust to their pet's progressive
disease and can say good-bye in their own way.
Hospice helps to make a pet's death a kinder, more intimate experience
for both pets and owners.
Contact Gail Bishop at Colorado State University's Argus Institute for
Families and Veterinary Medicine for more information:
970-297-4578 or gbishop@lamar.colostate.edu
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