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BHARCS is an education institute in Bangalore, India that focuses on providing education regarding canine behaviour and ethology to pet parents, pet professionals and aspiring canine behaviour consultants. We have a range of courses, starting from one weekend long courses, all the way up to a year long courses. Contact us for details of the courses you are interested in.

30/10/2026

Susan came to Canine Essential 101 after eight years of studying dog health, ethology, body language and training. While she acknowledges the several wonderful books and teachers she learnt from, she felt that there was something quite not right, till she discovered BHARCS. Here is what she wrote:

“Perhaps the biggest gift is not only the ability to decode their behavior, but to understand how they perceive mine. It opens up the door to become their friend or sometimes simply their advocate… and the ability to know which THEY prefer me to be. (This is huge!)

My dog is thriving & my own heart and brain is full with the things I’ve learned. I couldn’t be more thankful.

I HIGHLY recommend this course.”

Thank you, Susan. We love such stories.

Start Canine Essential 101 today to start a dramatic transformation journey, not just with your dogs, but with yourself. There is a reason our reviewers seem so hyperbolic in their praise for us. It is a journey like no other and it will, without a doubt, change your life!

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29/10/2026

If you like this substack, tag that one person you think will enjoy it.

Also, we will be doing a deep dive on this topic at our Conclave, titled Of Feral Women and Feral Dogs, on Sunday 15 November at 7 PM India. If you would like to be part of conversations like this, sign up for Canine Essential 101 today!

27/10/2026

BHARCS is now on Substack!
Short posts can only say so much. The BHARCS Way needs room to think, question and argue, so we have made a home for longer writing.
Our first essay is live: Mechanomorphism: how we turn dogs into machines. A puppy, a clicker, and what gets lost when curiosity is traded for rewards.
If you like this post, tag that one person you think would appreciate this POV. Our goal is not to rage bait naysayers, but to find kindred souls. So tag that one kindred soul you think will appreciate being here.

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25/10/2026

Feral dogs and feral women!
Words like feral and wild are used in fear inducing ways, on transgressive individuals considered out of control and who need to be “reined in”, be it women or animals. But what if we reclaimed those labels?

Could the so called ferality be a reclamation. A reclamation of lost agency, in a world that benefits from us being small and having no say. The good girl trope comes to mind. But what if we are done being good and done asking our dogs to be good. What if we were inspired by our dogs to reclaim these terms and own them?

Here is another glimpse into the conversation between Sindhoor and Surabhi aka Luchi & Mutton's .

Our upcoming Conclave in November, Of Feral Women and Feral Dogs, will be just that. Unscripted, honest, power packed and full of love.
And then there will be the AMA, where we take all your questions on this topic and anything else about the BHARCS Way.

We do this every month. These conversations have been life altering for us. Come be part of them.
Conclaves and AMAs come with Canine Essential 101, so as to create safe spaces for such discussions. Sign up today to become part of this gathering of radical thinkers. Start CE101 today, so you do not miss out on this mind bending conversation.
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16/10/2026

What does feral mean? We are conditioned to fear feral individuals. But what if we looked at this from a different perspective?

Surabhi Venkatesh once lived with a reactive dog. As she came to understand her, she saw that much of that "reactivity" was the dog being unapologetically authentic. To Surabhi, this brought up stuff…For so many women, "good girl" conditioning runs deep. It teaches suppression and compliance. It teaches us to override our own natural responses, even rage and grief. But here was a dog asking Surabhi to transgress. To go “feral”, in a world that benefits from women being quiet? Setting boundaries. Consenting, and withdrawing consent. Giving honest responses.

Given our work with dogs, this then invites us to examine the idea of “feral dogs”. In our minds, wild animals are violent. A free-living animal hunts, scavenges, and does things the "civilised" world finds unsavoury and thus we’d like to be done out of sight, not in our cities, not under our noses. But when we refuse to look, we miss out that the same non-human feral individual is also deeply nurturing, wise, social, and unapologetically loving, towards her babies and other individuals in her social circle. We use words like wild and feral to separate the nurturing parts from the authentic, wild parts to induce fear. But should we?

Join Sindhoor and Surabhi at the November Conclave: Of Feral Women and Feral Dogs, Sunday 15 November, 7 PM India.

The Conclave comes with Canine Essential 101. Join now with our 24 hour flash sale: Rs. 9,450 / $113 OFF with code ANTHROPOS45. Ends Saturday 17 October, midnight IST.

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Surabhi aka Luchi & Mutton's

14/10/2026

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14/10/2026

Sindhoor Pangal, founder of BHARCS, will deliver a Distinguished Guest Lecture for Anthropos India Foundation.

Topic: The Natural History of the Human-Dog Entanglement

Thursday 15 October 2026, 5 PM onwards (IST)
Streaming live on YouTube. Find the registration and live links on the Anthropos India Foundation page.

For registration please click here - https://forms.gle/iBVfnUWcm77G7BVeA

For YouTube live please click here - https://youtube.com/live/BLvvOoe_Bas

Join us!

09/10/2026

The choices we face are not easy to make. Let’s talk about difficult choices. Tell us about the dilemmas you face.

29/09/2026

Two puppies encounter the kitchen mixer on their first day in their foster home and get nervous. How does one help them?

Rusk and Mousse are already skittish. Everything is new and the world is a big bad scary place. They manage to fall asleep only to be rudely woken up by the screaming of a kitchen mixer. But this is the reality of a home. Life can't just stop. So what does one do? Use the open palm gesture. We managed to get a video of this particular interaction and it is gold!

Rusk looks at his human first. He seems to register the gesture, and within just a few seconds he rests his head on his paws.

Mousse is still processing. She flinches, looks around, keeps watching the kitchen. She glances at the hand, but she's not convinced yet. It is, after all, not a command, but a conversation. It goes back and forth, and both sides get to say their bit. So the message is offered again. She deliberates a bit more, is finally convinced she is safe, and rests her head on her brother.

Same room. Same sound. Same gesture. Each puppy took it in their own time.

Also, no trained behaviour, no expectations. The open palm was simply offered, and offered again, until each of them could process the message. This is a conversation: negotiated communication. It works very differently to training. It can be powerful, but only if one understands this distinction and is open to an actual conversation.

This month's Conclave in the BHARCS Auditorium, on Sunday 11 October, looks specifically at the open palm gesture, negotiated communication and conversations.

Sign up for Canine Essential 101 before 30 September and attend this Conclave. Visit courses.bharcs.com (link in bio). Monsoon special: 35% off with REASSURE35, until 30 September.

This video is from the supplementary material to the recently published paper, The Open Palm Gesture in Human–Dog Communication (2026).

28/09/2026

I have had it with the policing of animal caregivers.

Kindness and empathy are looked down upon as permissiveness. We are constantly pushed to be tougher, more disciplined, and in general to do better.

But guess who doesn't have to do better? The violent, aggressive, nasty ones.

No one bats an eyelid when someone abuses their power over a dog who is simply struggling to cope. And if that dog has had enough and bites, the problem becomes the dog and the "permissive" caregiver. The violence and anger of the human is never the problem.

I call BS on that. They are wrong. Scientifically wrong, ethically wrong, and emotionally stunted.

Don't get gaslit into giving up your kindness.

If kindness is your jam, come hang out with us. At Canine Essential 101, we will not only give you the scientific reasons why your approach works better, for you and for your dog, but also introduce you to your kind of people all over the world. There are many of us. If we support each other, our voices grow. We can claim space to be ourselves.

BHARCS is where kindness is not seen as weakness, but as extraordinary strength: a superpower, and a scientifically valid approach to caregiving.

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