About Me

Dr. Margaret Gamble

Maggie Gamble, DVM was born and raised in Southern California. She attended the University of California, Davis for her undergraduate studies, majoring in Nutrition. After that, she graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine in 1981. She has been a veterinarian for almost 40 years but has been an animal lover her entire life. At the age of 12, she decided she wanted to become a veterinarian and got her first job working with a vet when she was 16 years old.

Throughout her life, Dr. Gamble has had a variety of pets including dogs, cats, guinea pigs, Amazon parrots, cockatiels, geckos, a python, an iguana, a tortoise, and even a tarantula! During her veterinary career, she has worked at emergency clinics, various animal hospitals in the Long Beach and South Bay area, and at the Long Beach Animal Shelter where she helped sick and injured homeless pets. She also worked with marine mammals at Marineland and with exotic animals at the Sacramento Zoo.

She was the owner and main veterinarian at Parkview Pet Hospital, in Long Beach from 2009 to the end of 2020. In 2020, another veterinarian became the owner and sole vet of Parkview Pet Hospital. Dr. Gamble currently lives in the South Bay with her kitty Mochi, and her son Ian, a software developer. He made this website for her as a Christmas gift!