"As someone who’d been rescuing animals since a young child, and as someone who then went on to work at animal shelters, it wasn’t until a few years ago that a particularly difficult case left me feeling stuck. This dog, Snow, was abandoned and broken beyond any dog I’d ever come across. He was labelled as a biting/aggressive dog and was put in a kennel. I brought him out of there and into my home, and that’s when I saw how hard this road was going to be for the both of us. He simply did not want to get better, he did not want to trust, he did not want to live. And I simply did not know how to help him. 

My journey with BHARCS started then, I started with the CE101, and just 2 weeks into the 3 week course I was starting to unlearn everything I knew, change my perspective, question the way we do rescues, and started seeing a way of doing things that built on values that have been important to me - respect, communication, empathy, and choice. Soon after I joined the BACBED course, and this was harder for me, because I truly needed to change so much about what I was doing, I needed to now start implementing this new way, and when you’ve done something for twenty years, that’s not easy. 
But now when I’m called for a rescue, my entire approach has changed. I do things differently. I truly feel this will be so beneficial for the people and animals involved in rescues especially, we need to know there is a better, kinder way of doing things. We need to stop and take notice of how our actions impact animals, we cannot be dismissive of their feelings, their fears, their insecurities, and their choices. BHARCS was a life-changing for me."