laura hartwick

visual generalist • friend to animals • somewhat fast runner

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Common ground, between the team and the border collie.

Gustavo has decided that Banksy isn’t so bad. Sometimes. They made friends when I started bringing…

  • May, 9, 2014

Crate Games=Startline=Photoshoot, all equally important.

Banksy likes to move, move, move. We are doing much Susan Garrett Crate Games and me…

  • May, 7, 2014

Turlock USDAA, where Gustavo has a pretty good day even though I let the puppy come along.

This is Gustavo’s crate in the car. It is smooshed full of a Banksy. Gustavo probably…

  • May, 5, 2014

Eight things you perhaps wanted to know about Banksy, in no particular order, and then we I promise we will go back to regular team small dog programming which will now be informally known as team small dog and their Banksy.

Banksy loves mud and water more than almost anything. There is no water bowl that she…

  • May, 4, 2014

Things my puppy is teaching me-the funny x-pen game!

It might look like we have a quiet sedate puppy. At night we do, late at…

  • May, 2, 2014

Taking it slow, how my puppy is training me.

Helpers to play with puppy! Training a puppy is super easy, and it’s super hard. Right…

  • May, 1, 2014

Will the real Banksy please stand up?

OK, right, here we go. This is fast because there’s a border collie puppy in my…

  • Apr, 30, 2014

RIP, Miss K.

This is my friend Susan’s dog, Kinetic. Susan called her Miss K most of the time,…

  • Apr, 25, 2014

Hypothetical question regarding the joy that puppies feel when they fly on an airplane.

Enjoy this video of my big dog friend Grifter making wide turns yet still winning steeplechase,…

  • Apr, 22, 2014

What’s the matter with my dog theory number 47: sad little sissy guy sore front leg theory of dog agility weirdness.

Gustavo has spent the afternoon under the bed crying because he has a very sore right…

  • Apr, 21, 2014

Easter dog show, the one that had the sadness.

Not Gustavo. Grifter, my big dog friend. We were at a dog show all weekend. Which…

  • Apr, 21, 2014

The Breeders.

The last time I talked to the Breeders, before this time, was at the 7-11 downtown,…

  • Apr, 13, 2014

Some places we have been.

Whale watching. Exactly zero whales watched. We see more walking on our regular beach walk on…

  • Apr, 7, 2014

Somebody needs this little guy!

This little guy is a 16 week cattle dog corgi chihuahua, who knows what. He’s been…

  • Mar, 27, 2014

Danger faces, a primer in teaching a smokin’ recall in the woods.

I will confess that the way I have explained to the dogs that nobody chases things…

  • Mar, 24, 2014

You could watch this if you have time, it’s cool if you don’t. Whatever.

http://vimeo.com/89307892…

  • Mar, 17, 2014

Achieving success without high quality training.

Hey. Who are these NeverMind Dogs people? Statistically speaking, you’ll qualify eventually. Like today, we were…

  • Mar, 17, 2014

Walking to the old growth, where everybody knows your name.

Hola Otterpop! You look full. Did you just fill up with shaved porcini, rocket, and brioche…

  • Mar, 11, 2014

Stickerpacks, because who doesn’t need these?

You know what you probably need? A stickerpack to stickon yer dog crate. Or something. You…

  • Mar, 10, 2014

Oscar Party Live Tweets with Hashtag TeamSmallDog.

Ruby is live tweeting the Oscars. Live blogging is so 2012. We are over it. Blogging…

  • Mar, 2, 2014

Too far down the hill for Ruby.

If you walk all the way down to the river, the paths there have names. Dead…

  • Feb, 23, 2014

Something spooky, creeping through fashion week.

New York fashion week requires bravery. You have to set a grim look over your mug…

  • Feb, 16, 2014

Double axel toe loop camel fakie air facing stalefish.

Gustavo takes the slopestyle with his double.…

  • Feb, 16, 2014

Sunday at the Turlock USDAA, where we actually weren’t there.

Here we are driving to Turlock on Sunday morning. When the alarm went off, the idea…

  • Feb, 9, 2014
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