your pet's love is unconditional
now their veterinary care can be too
“I hope to make people realise how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.”
- James Herriott
clarity
Customized Care
HUMANE DESIGN
Guidance
Pallium Animal Hospice provides veterinarian-led, in-home senior comfort care for aging and medically complex pets. We support quality of life—before crisis, before uncertainty and without pressure. Our approach focuses on comfort, clarity and thoughtful guidance for families navigating this stage of their pet’s life.
What Hospice Means to Us
Hospice is not limited to the final days of life.
It is a structured, comfort-focused approach to caring for aging pets and those living with chronic or medically complex conditions. Many families begin hospice care while their pet is still enjoying good days—so we can protect those days.
Our role is to:
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Support comfort and function
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Monitor medication safety
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Provide honest prognostic guidance
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Reduce crisis-driven decisions
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Help families move forward without pressure
Hospice care may continue for months. When the time comes, it includes guidance and support around end-of-life and in-home euthanasia decisions grounded in prior planning and careful assessment.
Care Delivered in the Home
Pets are most comfortable in familiar surroundings.
In-home visits allow us to evaluate mobility, comfort, behavior, appetite, and daily routines in the environment where your pet lives. This provides a clearer understanding of quality of life and reduces the stress of travel for pets who may already be fragile.
When appropriate, Pallium may recommend limited, goal-directed diagnostics in the home—including laboratory testing, blood pressure measurement, or ultrasound-guided physical evaluation—to ensure comfort medications are being used safely and responsibly.
We also offer monthly wellness plans that offer follow-along services, ensuring your pet is receiving regularly scheduled visits and needed services.
Veterinarian-Led Hospice Care
Pallium Animal Hospice is led by Dr. Jennifer Ringenberg, DVM, an emergency-trained veterinarian with extensive experience caring for medically complex and geriatric patients.
Hospice care at Pallium emphasizes:
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Early involvement with a veterinarian when appropriate
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Honest communication
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Ethical decision-making
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Alignment with patient and family goals
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Collaboration with your primary care team
Our goal is not to replace your veterinary team, but to extend care into the home during this stage of life.
The Human Side of Hospice
Caring for an aging pet is both a medical and emotional experience.
Pallium integrates dedicated human support with a Family Support Specialist, equipped with formal training in counseling psychology and processing grief--an experience often neglected, even dismissed, in our society.
Families may choose to receive support during anticipatory grief, decision-making, and after a pet has passed.
This guidance is optional and non-clinical, offered as coaching and supportive conversation rather than psychotherapy.
Hospice care honors not only the life of the pet—but the bond they have with the loved ones they spent their lives with.
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what makes pallium different?
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Pets are family and like in human healthcare, we are focused on strengthening care options for our pets with complex medical needs and our senior pets, beyond the scope of in-home euthanasia services. Our customized in-home wellness plans provide support for every end-of-life stage, whether they have years, months, weeks or even days left in their journey.
Learn more about our wellness plans.
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In-home visits can mean no more "trick-the-dog-into-swallowing-gabapentin-cocktail-for-an-anxious-painful-ride-to-the-vet-office"... stressful for both pet and human! Arranging visits in the comfort of your own home means reducing anxiety and pain producing travel, while providing necessary services in your pet's own comfortable environment. Vet pets in their own bed? Tail wags and purrs every time!
Learn more about our in-home services.
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Pallium doesn't just focus on the furry side of our palliative and hospice care. After all, family includes you, the human caregivers, and the anticipatory grief and the pain of losing our beloved pets are experiences often overlooked and minimized in society. We seek to remedy these deficiencies with available one-on-one sessions, grief support groups, memorial planning services and customized services for families in need.
Learn about our Family Support Services