BHARCS
Graduates

Few graduates, by design.

BHARCS does not graduate students by the hundred. Each practitioner here completed hundreds of hours of supervised study, observation and written work — and each now runs a practice, publishes, or teaches in their own right, from Bangalore to Kranj.

The register

The practitioners

They take consultations, speaking invitations and collaborations directly. Reach them through their own practices below — BHARCS does not sit in the middle. Their published work sits with everyone else’s on the Scholarship page.

Sowjanya S Vijayanagar at home with her golden retriever and beagle

Sowjanya S Vijayanagar

Bangalore, India · Founder, Dog Pawmise

Certified canine behaviour consultant and applied ethologist, working as a scholar-practitioner around a single question: how do we come to know, understand and relate with dogs? Her work is grounded in applied ethology and biosociopsychology, and engages with human–animal studies, care ethics and decolonial thought — including what it means to learn from free-living dogs in the contexts they actually live in, rather than only in settings humans control.

She co-authored the BHARCS literature review on the failures of street-dog relocation, and teaches internationally. Her focus has shifted from guardians toward dog professionals, building research-informed learning communities where practitioners work through observation, reflexivity and collective inquiry.

Offers: one-to-one consultations (application-based) · cohort learning communities for practitioners · teaching and speaking · research collaboration
Anushree Thammanna embracing a pug

Anushree Thammanna

Bangalore, India · Consultant & Rescuer

Fifteen years in canine care and animal welfare, bringing an MSc in psychology to her BHARCS certification as a canine behaviour consultant. She has managed a trauma centre for dogs and co-founded a centre for rescued dogs, and her work began in shelters with aggression, reactivity and trauma.

She does not treat behaviour as a reaction to be managed but as a symptom with a cause underneath it, and works from empathy, respect and communication toward plans built for the individual dog. She co-founded Pug Squad India, a sanctuary and knowledge hub for rescued pugs, alongside her wider rescue and consulting work.

Offers: behaviour consultations, with a focus on aggression, reactivity and trauma · rescue and shelter work · collaboration
Surabhi Venkatesh seated in a garden

Surabhi Venkatesh

Gurugram, India · Founder, Luchi & Mutton’s

Certified canine behaviour and nutrition consultant, and a relational coach and business mentor. Through Luchi & Mutton’s — named for her two rescue dogs — she works virtually with guardians in India and beyond, pairing behaviour work with coaching that builds trust, safety and secure attachment.

She managed BHARCS Education from 2022 to 2025, and has consulted on reactivity and aggression with around a hundred guardians. She now runs group and one-to-one programmes for women living with reactive dogs, and mentors women running their own dog businesses.

Offers: one-to-one coaching · group programmes for guardians of reactive dogs · business mentorship for dog professionals · podcasting and speaking
Eva Pirnat kneeling beside her black dog

Eva Pirnat

Kranj, Slovenia · Founder, Noiacanis

Canine behaviour consultant and applied ethologist holding the BACBED Advanced Diploma, with a background in cultural studies and a continuing specialisation in canine nutrition. Her practice, Noiacanis, was shaped by the reactive dogs who changed her life, and she works chiefly with women living with reactive dogs.

She combines a science-based reading of behaviour and ethology with an emphasis on the wellbeing of the guardian as much as the dog, and hosts podcasts in both Slovenian and English.

Offers: individual mentorship · group walks · a masterclass on living with reactive dogs · podcasting and speaking
The wider work

What BHARCS publishes

The peer-reviewed papers, the position papers, the frameworks and the field writing that this teaching rests on — including work these practitioners co-authored.

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