About Me

I was born in 1960 in the Ruhr Area (Germany). My first career choice was to work as a teacher. From 1992 to 2006 I lived in Barcelona (Spain) and worked as a German teacher, amongst others for the Deutsche Schule Barcelona.

I have always been a dog enthusiast and long time dog owner and in 2003 I reached my educational limits on my own new "problematic" dog. I bought the first book about dog behaviour and dog education and this was the beginning. I acquired further credits through seminars and practical courses at the dog school Hundeschule Aschaffenburg in cooperation with the Hundeakademie Darmstadt, and I attended a practical course at the Hundefarm Eifel as well as training days in Barcelona with the team of Martin Rütter. Furthermore, I studied pet psychology with main focus on dogs at the Akademie für Tiernaturheilkunde ATN (Academy for Animal Naturopathy), Swiss/Germany, and at the same time I read intensely technical literature. After I got our own "problematic" dog under control, I got to know the Fundacion Trifolium (the Canopolis) in Barcelona. In a 6 ha wide woodland about 120 dogs live in self-selected packs of different dimensions. I could observe the dogs and learn a lot about dog behaviour. Furthermore, I trained some of those dogs. At the same time, I also gave group and private training classes in Barcelona, partially in cooperation with Juan Carlos Prats. Since November 2006 I have been living in Marbella area and I established the dogschool Canangi. I am a member and a consultant for dog behaviour of the local animal protection organisation Triple A. I am training some dogs (from a total of about 250) and I am trying, as best as I can, to make puppies socialising.

In my current "human-animal- pack" there is my husband, our Rhodesian Ridgeback male Tarzan, our Labrador mongrel male Hardy, our female Jack Russel Terrier Bicho, two cats, Floh and Püppi, and me.