Veterinarian Overview
Dr. Gray graduated with her Masters degree from Colorado State University in Zoology (focusing on applied animal behavior) in 2002. She then attended veterinary school at CSU, and graduated with honors in 2006. During her schooling, Dr. Gray worked at a local training facility as a dog trainer, and helped to teach an applied animal behavior class to her fellow veterinary students. She has worked in general veterinary practice, as well as shelter behavior and medicine, for the last 10 years.
Dr. Gray joined the Animal Behavior Clinic as a part-time clinician in 2016 after several years of professional case review and remote consultation with Dr. Pachel. When not seeing cases at the Animal Behavior Clinic, she practices at the Humane Society of Central Oregon in Bend, OR as the behaviorist and one of their veterinarians.
Her specific professional interests include parsing out the physical contributors to behavioral changes in older dogs as well as addressing the unique behavioral challenges faced by rescued and rehomed animals. Dr. Gray enjoys volunteerism, and goes to Playa del Carmen, Mexico every year to volunteer at a 6 day high volume spay/neuter campaign. For fun, she enjoys traveling, hiking, biking, spending time with her two daughters and husband, and rehabilitating the omnipresent foster animals. She has two pets of her own: Kali, a rescued Mexican street dog, and Oscar, a fabulous orange tabby cat.
