I didn't learn this work in a course.
I learned it as a girl.
I grew up surrounded by birds. My dad kept aviaries, and their songs would wake me each morning. But I didn't hear them the way others did. I felt them. I understood something in them — a longing, a freedom, a language that wasn't made of words.
It was the first time I realised that animals were communicating in a way most people weren't listening to.
That connection deepened with our family dog, Shiba. She understood me in a way I couldn't explain. I would sit with her and feel like we were having full conversations — not spoken, but known. While others saw imagination, I experienced something real.
That stayed with me.
I didn't set out to become an animal communicator. I set out to understand animals. Communication was where that path led.
As I grew older, I followed a path into swimming, then physiotherapy, travelling and studying the body in many forms. I learned the science — how the body holds, moves, compensates, and carries experience. But alongside that, something else was always there. An intuitive understanding that never left me.
When I began working in a veterinary practice, that connection became impossible to ignore. I could feel what the animals were expressing. Not just physically, but emotionally and energetically. It wasn't something I was trying to do — it was something I could no longer not feel.
At the same time, I had my own dog, Bruno. And more than anything, I just wanted to spend my days with him — to understand him, to be with him, to live in that connection.
A single conversation in the vets, nearly two decades ago, changed the direction of my life. It led me to begin working with dogs in my own way — which would eventually become Skool of Drool.
Not a traditional daycare, but a space where dogs can exist as they are. Where their behaviour isn't suppressed, but understood. Where they can express what is natural to them, reconnect with their instincts, and feel safe in a world that often asks them to be something else.
Through years of daily immersion with dogs, I have developed a deep specialism in canine understanding — not just behaviour, but the full picture of what they are experiencing.
What began with birds, and deepened through dogs, has now expanded into a connection with animals of all kinds.
This isn't something separate from my life.
It is how I experience it.
