Comfort Care is all about helping your pet to live life to the fullest for the time that remains.
It is not just for the final days of life. In fact, Comfort Care is best started at the time of diagnosis or the first signs of decline. Having a team in place offers your pet the in-home care needed and ensures you are fully supported.
We share our skills and experiences to support you in making the most appropriate choices for your pet.
Our focus is to return the center of care to your home while offering the best control of pain and symptoms.
We work closely with you to help you understand what is happening, what can be expected, and empower you to provide care when the team is not present.
When indicated, we provide families with a Comfort Kit, an injectable pain medication with sedation that can be administered by you in the case of an emergency.
Comfort Care is not just for the last days of life – it’s a model of care that encompasses so much more, for both you and your pet.
Not sure what to expect? Read about Ripley’s Comfort Care journey and how it gave him the best rest of life with his parents.
Comfort Care is compassionate care focused on comfort, not cure, and meeting the unique needs of your pet. It is care that celebrates what life remains, allowing you to make the most of each day. Comfort Care not only recognizes the needs of your pet, but also the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of you and your family.
Read about Shannon and Aaron’s Comfort Care experience with their boy, Ripley, and how it allowed them to maintain their bond while giving him the best rest of life.
Comfort Care should start at the first signs of decline or when a diagnosis is made, not when “there’s nothing more we can do”. The sooner a relationship is started, the more you and your pet can benefit from the support and care our team provides.
No, a Comfort Care relationship is appropriate at any stage of disease, and the sooner the relationship is started, the better.
The sooner Comfort Care is started, the more you and your pet can benefit. It is proactive care that can start at any stage of disease to greatly improve comfort and quality of life for months or years.
A “Comfort Kit” is something we dispense to our comfort care families when we are concerned that an emergency might happen, such as sudden distress or pain.
A Comfort Kit includes several pre-loaded syringes of a pain medication plus a sedative that families can give by subcutaneous (under the skin) injection in the case of an emergency. This easily administered injection provides both pain relief and sedation, and reduces any feelings of discomfort or distress.
A Comfort Kit provides relief not just for the pet, but for the family as well. For example, if a sudden crisis were to occur in the middle of the night, families would have on hand an intervention that will provide comfort until the vet arrives for euthanasia or reevaluation, or to provide comfort while en route to an emergency hospital if care is needed in the middle of the night.
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