Hospice For Pets

[MartyT]

Treating a Pet Like a Family Member - Right to the Very End

[from Last Acts Partnership E-Newsletter, June 2004]

It is far from uncommon for people to consider their pets beloved members of their families. And when these pets fall severely ill, owners want them to have the best care they can find during their final days. In that spirit, Colorado State University has started the nation's first student-run pet hospice care program in Fort Collins, CO. Kira, a 9-year-old black Lab mix with lung cancer, was the first patient. The program offers families a chance to bring their pets home and gives them a chance to say good-bye to their much-loved companions. The program is run through a veterinary teaching hospital, which also has a nationally renowned Animal Cancer Center, and specializes in providing emotional support to grieving pet owners. It hopefully will serve as a model that can be reproduced in other communities.

To read an article about this unique pet hospice program that ran in the Rocky Mountain News, go to:

Pet Hospice Comes Through in the End

[Frannie&Petey]

I think I will move to Fort Collins, CO.

I look forward to a similar program hitting AZ and all other states for all of us that are, saddly, participating in this group.

Frannie