Expert team

Get to know the faces behind Terra Canis

Our team of vets at Terra Canis combines in-depth specialist knowledge with many years of clinical experience. Driven by a passion for animal health, they develop high-quality products and provide pet owners with expert, personalised advice.

Dr Anna-Lena Ziese

Dr Anna-Lena Ziese is part of our team of vets. She has specialist knowledge of animal nutrition and internal medicine which she brings to our nutrition advice and to the development of our products.

She is more than happy to answer any questions you may have about your pet's diet or about how to use our products. Dr Ziese has loved animals ever since she can remember, and realised as a child that she wanted to help animals to lead healthy, happy lives. Her childhood dream came true when she studied veterinary medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. She then went on to complete a PhD in gastroenterology, as part of which she researched the microbiome and how it can be influenced in patients suffering from various gastroenterological illnesses. Alongside her academic work, she was a practicing vet in nutritional consulting as well as in the gastroenterological department of the university clinic. As such, she brings a considerable number of years of clinical experience to the job as well as broad specialist veterinary knowledge which she uses in a targeted way when dealing with animals and their owners.

Dr Ziese has support from the animal world in the form of her rescue cat Chopinski, who never fails to put a smile on her face with his lovable antics.

Dr Sabrina Carstens

Dr Sabrina Carstens is part of our product development team and contributes her veterinary expertise to the development of balanced and needs-based recipes for dogs and cats. Dr Carstens is also happy to assist you with any questions or concerns you may have about your four-legged friend's nutrition during veterinary consultations. Dr Carstens gained her initial professional experience as a veterinarian in the University Veterinary Hospital at LMU Munich and Oberhaching animal hospital, where she focused on internal medicine and gastroenterology.

Thanks to her clinical experience, she knows what’s what when it comes to feeding animals that are healthy and sick. For her, good animal food means top-quality ingredients, a composition that meets the animal’s needs and applying the latest scientific knowledge.

As part of her doctoral thesis, she completed scientific studies in the specialist field of gastroenterology and laboratory diagnostics and was given the opportunity to present her research results at national and international conferences.

Sabrina enjoys spending her free time with her dog Ozzy and her horse Charly in the countryside. And Ozzy is more than happy to offer his support in trying out the latest products.