Dr. Sophia Chavez has always loved ‘dogs with jobs’, but a few years before veterinary school, a mentor introduced her to IGP; that’s when her passion for working dogs began.

During her final year of clinical rotations, she spent time at the PennVet Working Dog Center learning general and sports medicine & rehabilitation to all types of working dogs.

Outside of running The K9 Doctor, she works full time as an ER Veterinarian at Veterinary Emergency Group; a veterinary company that also believes in never separating animal from human, regardless of medical treatment needed.

Sophia grew up in the Santa Clarita Valley and ‘inherited’ her love for german shepherds from her grandfather. She earned her Bachelors’s degree in Animal Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and went on to graduate with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tennessee.