About me

Animals have been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I grew up with dogs, and from a very young age my life was also accompanied by hamsters, turtles, birds, and cats. Each one, in their own way, awakened in me curiosity, affection, and a deep respect for animals. But there has always been a special connection with dogs.

For many years, I thought loving a dog meant caring for them, protecting them, giving them affection, and making sure they had a good life. Over time, I discovered that there is something deeper: loving a dog also means wanting to understand them. Understanding how they communicate. What they feel. Why they do what they do. What they need from us. And, above all, learning to see them as the individual they are.

That curiosity and love for dogs kept growing until they became a true need to learn. To understand not only their behaviour, but everything behind it. That is why I decided to train in Professional Conscious Dog Education (ECCP, from the Spanish translation), a one-year programme focused on dog education and behaviour modification from a holistic perspective.

Through ECCP I am deepening areas that I am passionate about, such as the study and biology of behaviour, the neurophysiological bases of behaviour, learning, ontogeny, genetics and environmental influence, animal welfare, canine communication and the social behaviour of dogs, among many others. I am also learning to understand much more complex processes related to emotions and behaviour: stress, fear, anxiety, separation-related problems, reactivity and other behavioural disorders, as well as the importance of knowing when a case requires joint work or referral to professionals in other specialties.

All of this is profoundly changing the way I understand dogs. For me, educating no longer means simply getting a dog to obey or “behave well”. It means asking ourselves why a behaviour appears before trying to modify it. It means observing the individual in front of us, taking into account their genetics, their development, their previous experiences, their learning, their emotional state, their environment, their needs, and the relationship they maintain with the people they live with. Because a behaviour never exists in isolation.

I believe in education based on respect, empathy, trust, knowledge and understanding, where we can become a safe reference point for our dogs without stopping listening to what they have to tell us. Because dogs speak: they do so with their bodies, with their movements, with the distances they take and seek, with their eyes, with their decisions, and also through those behaviours that humans often interpret simply as “problems”. Learning to observe them differently has changed the way I see them. And it has changed me too.

A path that has only just begun

The more I study canine behaviour, the more questions appear and the more I want to keep learning.

That is why ECCP is not, for me, the end of my training, but the beginning of a professional path. My next steps will be focused on going deeper, especially in ethology and animal behaviour, and perhaps one day also in the field of therapy dogs and dog-assisted interventions, where I want to continue exploring that extraordinary relationship that can be built between animals and people.

My goal is to continue training and gaining experience to understand better not only what a dog does, but why it does it, what it is feeling, what it needs, and how we can accompany it while respecting who it is. Because the more I learn about them, the more aware I become of everything I still have to discover.

First they were childhood companions. Then they became a passion. Today they are also becoming my professional path.
A path I want to follow through knowledge, sensitivity, responsibility, and, above all, the great respect I feel for them.

Because for me, education begins with understanding.
And understanding begins with learning to listen.