Heart's Ease Veterinary Care

Heart’s Ease Veterinary Hospice is an in-home service providing compassionate geriatric support care, hospice and palliative care and in-home euthanasia. Our care focuses on quality of life and comfort support for companion animals that are seniors, diagnosed with a terminal illness, have progressive arthritis or other disease limitations

Heart's Ease was started by Dr. Courtney Bennett, DVM after she relocated to Louisville in 2012 to join her KY native significant other, visual artist Mark Traughber. Prior to joining the Louisville community, she practiced in her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA after graduating from North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine in 2004. She had the pleasure of working along side many talented veterinarians at several wonderful small animal practices prior to her career shift. Those years provided a strong foundation for her geriatric and end of life focused care here in Kentuckiana. Dr. Bennett also shares her home and love with her incredible little boy, Leslie, and two crazy kitties, Milton and Kitten Smitten Motorhead Stinky Bottom and her newest cattle dog rescue, Jacks. Dr. Bennett's time in PA helped to build her foundation not only through practicing skilled veterinary medicine, she also helped care for her terminially ill mother, Dora. After graduation, Dr. Bennett moved home to be with her mom, who suffered from Huntington's Disease. She was able to help care for her over the next 5 years, including the 1 and 1/2 years that she was in hospice care (over a year longer than the doctor's expected). Through her mother's difficult battle and her role as a care giver, Dr. Bennett's continued interest in palliative care and supportive therapy grew. Over the years, Dr. Bennett has said good bye to many amazing animal companions including Shroomie (the most amazing 20 year old cat, her absolute soul kitty) and Piggy (an 18 year old silly, happy Pug who snuck into her heart and home) passed peacefully in the comfort of their home not long after moving to Kentucky. Since then she has continued to know great love and also great loss and has been able to help each animal family member with their gentle transitions at home. Personal love and loss, human and animal, have laid the foundation for what has become Heart's Ease

Mission — Heart's Ease mission is to honorably support life and death, for both the sick and their caregivers. Helping to live and love well in all its breadth and to have the best life follow the path for the best death