Maria Luisa Odriozola Alén :
She was born in Hamm (Germany), attended German school in Madrid and Barcelona as well as the College of Veterinary Medicine in Madrid from where she graduated in 1993. She did practices in the USA (Dodgeville Veterinary Center, Wisconsin) and Germany (Tierklinik in Telgte, Tierärtzliche Hochschule in Hannover).
Until the year 2000, she worked both in a urban small animal clinic in Madrid, and a mixed small animal and farm animal clinic in Arenas de San Pedro and Barco de Avila.
Since 2000 she works in the clinic and she has taken over the direction shortly after her arrival in Marbella.
She loves animals since she was a little girl and she loves to take care of her patients, specially the young ones.
Her fields of special interest are diagnostic imaging, pediatrics and general surgery.
Maria Luise speaks German, Spanish and English
Sandy Thomas
Sandy was born in Frankfurt, Germany and while she was studying she started doing practices at Equus-Can. After graduating from Veterinary School of Córdoba , Spain in 2006 she did an externship at the Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in Boston, USA.
Back in Spain she obtained the degree as a Specialist for small animal and equine dentistry from University Complutense de Madrid in 2007.
Her fields of special interest besides dentistry are general medicine and dermatology.
Besides working with small animals in the clinic she is also doing some field work as a horse dentist.
Sandy speaks German, Spanish and English.
Maria José started working with us as an assistant when she was still going to university to be a teacher. Nowadays she combines her work in the clinic with her work as a teacher in an elementary school in Marbella.
She is in charge of the reception and the shop and will be very pleased to help you to find the right food or any accessorize for your pet.
She is a great animal lover, specially of the very little ones as she has two Chihuahuas and a little adopted male dog at home.
Olga Puertas Padilla
Olga works in the clinic as an assistant since October 2009.
She is the heart of the reception remembering all the patients and owner’s names.
She is responsable for the laboratory work and assists us in surgeries, and her main concern is the wellbeing of the animals during their stay at the clinic.
She has grown up with dogs and has two Spanish Mastin dogs at her parents garden centre.





