Welcome to Peaceful Shores
Providing unique, peaceful, and compassionate end-of-life and palliative care for beloved pets.
Seeing your pet arrive at the end of their life isn’t easy. So many memories and so much love make it a bittersweet time that often comes with challenges and difficult decisions to make.
As a hospice and palliative care veterinarian, Dr. Kennedy helps guide you to the best choices for you and your pet. Just like human hospice care, veterinary palliative and hospice care is intended to support you and your family as you face the loss of your beloved companion.
Services: Reduce Stress, Anxiety, & Pain
Palliative/Hospice Care: The number one goal of hospice care is to reduce any anxiety and pain your pet may be feeling. Their quality of life matters and helping you and your pet enjoy the time they have left with you is key. Learn more …
In-Home Euthanasia: When the time comes, you may choose to euthanize your pet and doing this in the comfort and familiarity of your own home greatly reduces the anxiety most pets feel when it comes to a vet office or hospital visit. Learn more …
Cremation and Transportation: It is important to think ahead and decide what you might like to do with your pet’s remains. Some prefer to make arrangements on their own and others prefer Dr. Kennedy to help them. She can make the arrangements and provide transportation of your pet’s remains to a local crematorium. Learn more …
How to Know If It’s Time: Quality of Life (QoL) Survey
Facing the end of your pet’s life is a difficult and emotionally charged time. This is why Dr. Kennedy uses a Quality of Life survey (modeled after the Ohio State University’s Quality of Life Checklist) to help objectively determine if it’s time to consider hospice care and/or euthanasia. She knows your pet’s quality of life and comfort is of the highest priority to you AND she wants to support that completely.
If you’re unsure if it’s time to consider in-home pet hospice or euthanasia, take the survey and then reach out to Dr. Kennedy to discuss results and your concerns and questions.
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it’s a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
~Emmylou Harris
Meet Dr. Kennedy
Dr. Jessamyn Kennedy is passionate about the human-animal bond and is dedicated to bringing compassion and gentleness to her practice of veterinary medicine. This is particularly true in her work as a hospice and euthanasia practitioner.
Dr. Kennedy feels called to serve and honor that animal-human bond through Peaceful Shores Veterinary Hospice. Offering hospice care and acting as an end-of-life “midwife,” she can offer a gentle, kind, safe, loving, and compassionate way for your pet and family to say goodbye.
