Kathleen (Kathy) Quigley, DVM

Veterinarian

Dr. Quigley earned an undergraduate BS degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Alaska in 1978 and earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1983 from Washington State University. She spent her childhood years in California but left when she was 18 years old, and has lived in a variety of places since then including Colorado, Maryland, Virginia, Montana, Alaska, Idaho, New Mexico, and Germany.

Dr. Quigley’s veterinary career has been quite varied. She has owned and operated a small animal practice in Moscow, Idaho, worked as a clinician in a small animal AAHA practice in western Maryland, and recently retired from her practice – Foothills Veterinary Hospital – a full-service AAHA accredited facility in Bozeman, Montana that she owned and operated for 15 years.

Dr. Quigley is also a part-owner of the Pet Emergency & Trauma Services Hospital in Bozeman, Montana. Dr. Quigley has traveled to multiple developing countries, including Honduras, Costa Rica, and Cuba, to assist local veterinarians with spay & neuter events and general animal care. Two summers ago, she spent a month in Poland volunteering to care for dogs injured and displaced by the Ukraine war. Dr. Quigley has also had an extensive career as a wildlife veterinarian.

For 15 years, she was the Hornocker Wildlife Institute’s staff veterinarian, where she worked with wild carnivore populations, providing full-time veterinary oversight for several field studies within the United States and Russia. Her responsibilities included monitoring the health status and disease threats to wild carnivore populations, providing immobilization and handling training to all field biologists, creating and implementing protocols for collecting health data on enzootic and epizootic diseases, and teaching safe immobilization techniques to American and Russian biologists, anti-poaching officers, and Russian veterinary students.

The wildlife species she worked with include Siberian tigers, Asiatic black bears, brown bears, and Amur leopards in the Russian Far East, cougars, wolverines, and black bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Swift Fox in Colorado, and white rhinoceroses’ in Krueger National Park, South Africa. Dr. Quigley has also been an instructor and leader for Loop Abroad’s Australia Wildlife Course. Dr. Quigley has been a veterinarian for more than 40 years, and she would be the first to admit that it is a wonderful profession that she has loved being a part of.

She has one daughter, Allyson Quigley, who has followed in her mother’s footsteps and is now an Emergency Veterinarian at an Emergency & Specialty Hospital in Oregon. Dr. Quigley’s animal family includes Madi, a 10-year-old Border Collie, and two very fluffy cats – Henry & Bagheera. She admits that there is a routine in her house where all the animals sit on the couch with her and watch re-runs of Gray’s Anatomy!