I’m a dog trainer and Animal psychologist. I completed a course for Animal psychology for dogs, cats and horses at the ATN Institute (Switzerland) and also study Biology with focus on Ethology at the University of Graz.
I live in a small village in the South of Styria, about 40 km away from Graz where I grow up and 10 km near to the Slovenian border. At the moment I keep 6 dogs and one in co-ownership, a bearded dragon and some fish.

My parents kept pets since I was a little girl and I did love them from the first sight, even worms and snails ;-) I also was interested in them from a science point of view ever: I kept tadpoles and watched their metamorphosis to frogs, in Elementary school I  raised ducks like Konrad Lorenz and then I bred mice after Mendel’s genetic rules. (By the way everything was not really that, what my parents liked to see ;-)
But all this could not satisfied my greatest wish: a dog!
In 1991 my parents bought our house and after I’ve written many letters in which I’ve begged for a dog and promised to be the best daughter ever, it should be fulfilled! We should get a dog. By chance we found an Akita litter in Austria. Which was really good luck at this time, because the female only was the 2nd Akita in our country. And so we got our Tamami.
As she was the most beautiful female in this litter, the breeders persuaded us to show and breed her. This was the reason, why I came into the world of dog shows.
In 1996 Tamami had her first and only litter and I had to beg again until my parents decided, that I could keep the only girl. So I got my beloved Akemi!
In 1999 I visited the European Dog Show in Tulln and was fascinated by all this breeds, so I started to read and collect everything according to dog breeds, visited a lot of dog shows and took pictures (at the moment I’ve photos showing more than 300 different breeds made by myself).
So, of course, I’ve always wanted to keep rare and exotic dogs.
I’ve wanted a Norwegian Lundehund for years, after I’ve seen them in a Scandinavian book, about 15 years ago. I was attracted by the funny name (which sounds much funnier in German) and after I’ve learned about the anatomical specials I was absolutely fascinated. I always have been a bit unusual, so which dog would better fit to me than the most unusual dog breed ever. But at this time I couldn’t keep another dog and it was also very difficult to find a pup somewhere.
In 2002 I travelled to the World Winner Dog Show in Amsterdam and I felt in love again: with the Xoloitzcuintle, the Mexican Hairless Dog. I did knew the breed at this time and was also interested in them, but all the dogs I’ve seen in books, looked quite ugly. But these dogs in the show didn’t look ugly, but very mystic and beautiful! Like living statues.
When Akemi and I moved to our new home in 2004, I started searching for a pup – a Lundehund or a Xolo and what comes in was… a Thai Ridgeback Dog. It was love at the first sight again ;-)
One year later I actually get a Lundehund pup too.
2007 was the year the pack grow very fast. I wanted to keep the only boy out of my first Thai Ridgeback litter, because I couldn’t find the right show home for him. Also I’ve started looking for a new puppy again. I didn’t really planed to get an other new dog right now, but finding good dogs sometimes is a long way. I planed to buy a white Akita female once and I also was still looking for a Xolo. Of course I found both at the same time, Anantachai was just a puppy ;-). I was thinking for a long time. What should I do: keep him and don’t buy another one? Get the Akita pup, which was white, very promising and absolutely cute? Or buy the Xolo girl, I was looking for for so many years?
I decided to buy the Akita pup and also keep Anantachai. But three dogs of the same age are definitively too much, so I sadly refused the Xolo. But two month later I mate my friend Christiane again, who was also looking for a Xolo and she asked me, if I’m interested in a Co-ownership. And of course I was!
That’s the story how I got my doggies (more about them, see on their own sites). And I’ve never regretted any decision.
I may look a bit crazy with my different dogs, but I do not breed different breeds to get money, I keep these dogs, because they are the dogs of my dreams!