laura hartwick

visual generalist • friend to animals • somewhat fast runner

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Did you see the dog agility on the teevee?

We ended our rain walk early to get home for the dog agility on tv. The…

  • Feb, 9, 2014

Another team day at USDAA.

Steeplechase this weekend, Gustavo loves steeplechasing. Gustavo had some good runs this weekend, and some not…

  • Feb, 3, 2014

There are no bees in winter, they are supposed to be asleep, a story by Ruby.

This is not really a story by Ruby. But she was walking with me, and we…

  • Jan, 30, 2014

Jumpers Champion Gold

Gustavo doesn’t win a lot of awards. Agility is a whole different thing than it was…

  • Jan, 29, 2014

Walking round my block.

So the other day I was walking down the street round back from mine, where the…

  • Jan, 27, 2014

How to have Friday night for dog geeks.

I remember a lot of Friday nights where me and my friends would sit out back…

  • Jan, 27, 2014

The little house in the thicket.

When we are out walking, we are usually walking on the path. Or we are running.…

  • Jan, 27, 2014

Different day, different dog show.

Dog show dudes. First of all, way more gentlemens than at dog agility at this dog…

  • Jan, 27, 2014

Silent K, a tale of oversharing at the dog show.

Do you ever stay at the seediest Motel 6 in the interest of more money for…

  • Jan, 21, 2014

Don’t be mad if you live in the polar vortex.

Don’t be mad if you live in the polar vortex. Our waterless vortex of drought, which…

  • Jan, 16, 2014

Sliding down the red carpet, no martini.

Everybody stops on the red carpet for just a sec, the photographers all crowd in and…

  • Jan, 13, 2014

We are going to try a do-over of the New Years this week.

We are going to try a do-over of the New Years this week. Last week, we…

  • Jan, 6, 2014

Today is another year.

I didn’t even notice the year was ending and there were top tens and this kind…

  • Jan, 1, 2014

This was a year.

This was a year. Like every other one. Nobody was champions this year, but that’s cool.…

  • Jan, 1, 2014

Hello and did you survive Xmas, as if I care, a Story by Otterpop.

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  • Dec, 29, 2013

Anna Eifert Seminar in San Jose.

We had the best fun ever this weekend in the Anna Eifert seminar in San Jose.…

  • Dec, 16, 2013

When the temperature takes a chill.

This is ice. All week there has been ice. It’s a cold wind blowing over everything,…

  • Dec, 10, 2013

Team Small Dog Custom Dog Drawing sale is over, done, and now you probably have to do the rest of your shopping at some place even more in violation of human rights.

Art sale is officially OVER for the season. You can still order things, for sure. Hell,…

  • Dec, 7, 2013

Mental Games, where we play along to figure out if an eternally grateful, spotless mind brings about dog agility success, or as Mental Baseball player ex-Giant current Dodger Brian Wilson, tells us, Fear the Beard.

Did you ever play this game from the ’70’s that involved dropping tiny, plastic milagros into…

  • Dec, 4, 2013

Order now, order often, for tis the season of Cybermonday the day after WorkalldaySunday the day after SmallbusinessSaturday the day after Blackfriday from a long time ago Thanksgivakah.

It is that time of year, the time of year when I rub my hands together…

  • Dec, 2, 2013

Your BlackFriday Download this FreeApp while you are sitting/standing/driving/moshing through that holiday craptastic sale shopping unexplainia.

Download this, baybeez! Use yer phone! Use yer device! Use yer Walmart store greeter! Swipe and…

  • Nov, 29, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving from yer pals, team small dog.

Perhaps to which she refers is a turducken? Muthatrucken dozerturducken? We will be enjoying polenta cassarole…

  • Nov, 28, 2013

At agility practice, which we still do, indeed.

Since we are adrift without agility goals, maybe it would seem like no practicing, full anarchy,…

  • Nov, 26, 2013


When I whistle, then is where you need to be. So this is what we do.



Creepy people and stuff we find when we walk around.

What I always tell the dogs is, that in the woods, stay away from the creepy…

  • Nov, 26, 2013
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