At-Home End-of-Life Care for Your Pet
Find providers that may serve your area and know what to ask before scheduling. These listings cover at-home euthanasia, hospice and aftercare, with each provider’s services explained on its own page.
If you are unsure what your pet needs or how urgently, call your veterinarian. Help My Pet cannot assess your pet, reserve a visit or confirm today’s availability.
Anywhere in the U.S.
These networks have local teams in many areas. Enter your ZIP code on their websites to check coverage, or see end-of-life help in your state.
Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice
National network of in-home hospice and end-of-life vets; enter your ZIP code to check coverage. Covina coverage confirmed directly.
Pet Loss at Home
U.S. network; use its ZIP finder and family phone.
Southern California Providers
In Covina? Lap of Love has directly confirmed coverage, subject to the address and schedule. Hearts & Halos and Animal Ambulance list broader areas that include the region; confirm your address. A Pet’s Farewell and Advanced Mobile Vet Care have told us they do not serve Covina.
Hearts & Halos
Los Angeles, Orange County, Ventura County and listed valleys; confirm your address.
Paws Into Grace
San Diego, Orange County and Temecula/Riverside; regular Covina coverage unconfirmed.
A Pet’s Farewell
Listed Orange County and nearby cities. Does not serve Covina.
Advanced Mobile Vet Care
South Orange County. Does not serve Covina.
Bedside Vet
Long Beach-based mobile service. Not 24/7; Covina coverage unconfirmed.
Animal Ambulance of Southern California
Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties; confirm service and arrival time.
Outside Southern California
Lap of Love and Pet Loss at Home, listed above, are U.S. networks; check their coverage for your ZIP code. The IAAHPC hospice directory also lists hospice, palliative and in-home end-of-life providers beyond our region. Service areas vary, so confirm your address.
Planning ahead
You don’t have to wait for a crisis to start these conversations. IAAHPC’s pet-parent guidance covers hospice planning, quality of life and caregiving. Wisdom Paws offers virtual quality-of-life and end-of-life planning consultations; confirm fees directly. For questions to bring to your veterinary team, see understanding the next step.
Caring for a cat? The FelineVMA’s quality of life and end-of-life guide walks through the questions vets use (pain, appetite, drinking, grooming, happiness, mobility, and whether there are more good days than bad), with a free printable good-day/bad-day calendar to bring to appointments. Their hospice and palliative care guide (PDF) explains comfort care at home.
Make One Call Count
- Give your city or ZIP code, pet’s species and approximate weight. Ask whether they can serve your exact address.
- Ask which services they offer and the earliest appointment they can actually confirm.
- Request the total cost, including travel, after-hours fees and the aftercare option you want. Ask when payment is due.
- Ask what happens if your pet needs help before the appointment and whom to call.
If cost is a barrier, see ways to pay for care. Programs may exclude euthanasia or cremation, so confirm that before applying.
In the Los Angeles and Orange County area, the Honor Fund can help toward the difference between communal and individual cremation, so families can receive their pet’s ashes when money is tight. Confirm current availability directly.
After a loss
Grief after losing a pet is real. The CVMA pet-loss support directory lists California pet-loss groups and counselors, and some are available online. Wisdom Paws also offers caregiver grief support.
Pet-loss support lines anywhere in the U.S.:
- Tufts Pet Loss Support Helpline · 508-839-7966, Monday–Thursday 6–9 p.m. Eastern, with 24-hour voicemail.
- Cornell Pet Loss Support Hotline · 607-218-7457. Hours change by season; the recording gives current hours.
- Michigan State University Pet Loss Support Group · Free group by Zoom or phone on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month. Your pet does not need to have been an MSU patient. Confirmed by MSU Veterinary Social Work, October 21, 2026.
- Chicago VMA Dr. Mary K. Baukert Pet-Loss Helpline · 630-325-1600, free; leave a message and a trained volunteer calls back. The Chicago VMA also runs WINGS, a free pet loss support group on Zoom on the first Wednesday of each month, 7:30–9:00 pm Central; email [email protected] by 6 pm that day for the link. Open to anyone.
- Lap of Love Pet Loss Support · free virtual support groups by Zoom several times a week, including a group for people grieving a cat. Open to anyone.
- Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement · free online chat room and no-charge support groups.
Free guides to read at your own pace, from The Pet Loss Studio:
- The First 72 Hours After Pet Loss · practical and emotional support for the first hours and days.
- The Healing Letter · 12 free letters, one a week by email, for the weeks and months after a loss.
- I Keep Thinking I Failed Them · for guilt, regret and hard end-of-life decisions.
- When Everyone Else Moved On · for grief that lasts after others have stopped asking.
- A Letter for Tonight · comfort for a hard evening.
- The Pet Memorial Space (private) and A Place to Remember (public) · free places to keep photos, memories and a tribute.
More free articles on grief, guilt and remembrance are on The Pet Loss Studio blog. Shared with the founder’s permission, October 22, 2026.
About these listings
Reviewed September 24, 2026. Each provider page shows what we checked and whether coverage was confirmed directly. Service areas and schedules can change, so confirm your exact address, price and availability with the provider.