My Approach

Ecosystem Consulting and Human-Dog Relationships

A dog is much more than a pet. It is a complex living being, with biological needs, deep motivations, and modes of communication that we often struggle to understand in modern life. It is a sentient being, endowed with biological needs, ethological motivations, evolutionary memory, and its own means of communication. Reducing a dog to an emotional presence or a functional element of human life means ignoring its profound nature and, often, generating discomfort, conflict, and misunderstanding.

My work stems from this: the need to view the dog not as an isolated individual, but as an integral part of a complex system composed of relationships, the environment, wildlife, urban spaces, and intra- and inter-species dynamics.

Drawing on my background in natural sciences and my training in dog behavior, I provide ecosystem consulting focused on the human-dog relationship, using an approach that integrates ethology, ecology, animal behavior, and environmental analysis.

I don’t focus on obedience.
I don’t focus on performance.
I focus on understanding.

I believe that coexistence between species should not be based on control, but on understanding. That is why I consider it essential to help caregivers understand dogs for what they truly are: living beings embedded in both urban and rural ecosystems, capable of generating continuous impacts, connections, conflicts, and adaptations.

The Dog as Part of an Ecosystemic Continuum

Every dog lives within a network of complex relationships that constantly influence its behavior, well-being, and the way it navigates the world. It never exists as an isolated individual: it interacts with other dogs, with humans, with urban species such as cats and birds, with wildlife, and with environments that vary greatly, from a city square to a nature trail.

For this reason, I don’t believe it’s possible to truly understand a dog without also considering the context in which it lives. The urban environment, natural spaces, social dynamics, past experiences, and ethological motivations constantly influence the way a dog communicates, reacts, and expresses itself.

My work focuses precisely on interpreting these connections. For me, understanding a dog means looking beyond individual behaviors and asking what is driving them: which needs are not being met, what role the environment plays in its responses, and what balances are being created—or disrupted—within its relationships with other individuals and the surrounding ecosystem.

I believe that freedom does not mean the absence of rules, but rather the ability to express oneself within a conscious balance. A truly free dog is one that is understood, guided by a caregiver capable of interpreting the environment, social dynamics, and the biological limits of both themselves and others—not by imposing control, but by fostering a more mindful, safe, and respectful coexistence for all species involved.

Where This Journey Begins

My journey didn’t start with a theory. It started with a challenge. It started with Giotto.
Giotto is a Jagdterrier. Eight pounds of dog capable of turning every day into something unpredictable. One of those dogs you love deeply and who, at the same time, constantly throw you off balance. The dog that forces you to stop looking for simple solutions. With him, I’ve come to know the predatory instinct in its most authentic form.

The hunt. Independence. Determination. The drive to explore. The natural cruelty of predation as a biological behavior, not a moral one.

Giotto is the dog who jumped out of a first-floor window to chase a cat, spent hours in a bramble thicket chasing small hares, ran away countless times only to find his way back “to the bar” on his own, and lost GPS trackers, harnesses, and every kind of equipment imaginable. A difficult dog. Brilliant. Clever. Deeply independent. A Jagdterrier bred to enter burrows, confront animals larger than himself, and kill them. A dog you can’t simply “tell what to do.” And it was he who opened up a whole new world to me. To understand him, I began to study. First, I trained as a dog trainer.

Then, with the arrival of Emma (Drahthaar x Sharpei), I realized that wasn’t enough. My dogs confronted me with something much bigger: the atavism of predation, the ecological complexity of behavior, the constant conflict between animal nature and human society. From there, I deepened my work with hunting dogs through a specialized ENCI program and chose to enroll in university in Natural Sciences to build a more solid scientific foundation, expand my research, and understand ecosystems in their entirety.

Because you can’t truly understand a dog without also understanding:

• wildlife,

• habitats,

• comparative ethology,

• human impact,

• the ecological dynamics of coexistence among species.

A Systemic View of Coexistence

Today, my work focuses on fostering a more mindful coexistence between dogs, humans, and the environment—a coexistence that does not anthropomorphize dogs, but rather recognizes:

• biological identity,

• species dignity,

• motivational needs,

• ecosystem role.

Because a dog’s well-being cannot be separated from the well-being of the environment in which it lives. And because learning to understand a dog inevitably means learning to understand the world around us as well.