Dr. Bravos grew up on Mill Station Road in Western Sonoma County on land his family had raised dairy cattle on for 150 years. He competed on the track teams at Analy High School in Sebastopol, Santa Rosa Junior College and at UC Davis. He wanted to be a civil engineer when he entered UC Davis in 1989, but a chance visit to C Barn on the veterinary school campus brought him right back to his childhood on his family's dairy, and he never looked back. He worked in the state legislature, at Superior Farms and Hemostat labs before entering veterinary school at UCD in 1999. Upon graduation in 2003 he entered practice at Bradshaw Veterinary Hospital in Elk Grove. In 2008 he founded M.S.V.S.

Dr. Bravos' son Jess grew up in the practice, and was active in soccer, golf, 4H and FFA at Dixon High School. He obtained his Bachelor's at the University of San Diego and is currently a vet student at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine like his father.