laura hartwick

visual generalist • friend to animals • somewhat fast runner

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Forest Ranger, Bright Lily and Frost.

A guy named Dave is painting our house. He doesn’t exactly get me, there are subjects…

  • Jun, 7, 2011

USDAA DAM Team day in Turlock.

I drove the dogs out to Turlock on Sunday morning for a DAM Team day. Otterpop…

  • Jun, 6, 2011

Cooking low protein meals for your special diet dog-a primer.

As if this item is going to be the least bit useful once the apocolypse is…

  • Jun, 2, 2011

Top Chef vegetarian with special percentages of triglicerides edition.

We spent a long time in the vet office yesterday, the fancy vet where the specialists…

  • Jun, 1, 2011

Things we found on our walks this weekend when you were q’ing and barbequing.

Civil war soldiers. A million ticks. The soldiers were a lot more pleasant than the ticks.…

  • May, 31, 2011

Fracking-Otterpop’s Guide to Clean Energy.

Otterpop yells a lot. Lately she’s on a thing about fracking. Makes Gustavo hide in his…

  • May, 29, 2011

Dogs are the best part of the day.

It has been a tiring, long week this week. Lots of weeks seem to be. When…

  • May, 27, 2011

A dog so special he just gots some extra liver action going on.

Turns out that Gustavo doesn’t stare for a hobby. Boy am I glad that I started…

  • May, 25, 2011

The Basic Rules of Gambling for High Rolling Dogs.

Do you know Jim? Jim is our go-to guy for learning how to gamble with the…

  • May, 23, 2011

Walking down to the grotto.

We walked down to the abandoned car grotto swimmin’ hole after work last night. Haven’t been…

  • May, 20, 2011

The dark side.

I feel a little bit dirty and weird. I have been promised now, with their help,…

  • May, 19, 2011

Monday is once again a fun day.

We got to have a practice today. Our favorite kind. Just me and the dogs, working…

  • May, 17, 2011

When the ghosties live in a single, granular speck.

We all have our hobbies. Paparazzi stalking newly minted celebrity singers. Bleaching raccoon skulls. Gourmet ice…

  • May, 16, 2011

Sorry about this, Team Small Dog fans who do not appreciate the nuances of James Durbin. Sorry, but not really sorry. Just kidding. Not.

James got to have his parade. And then some. He seemed at first overwhelmed. Everyone staring…

  • May, 15, 2011

James Durbin and how he relates to dog agility. How?

Thursday night, there was outrage. Stomping. Yelling. Muttering. Tears. James didn’t make the cut. This was…

  • May, 14, 2011

How James Durbin saved us the time we had to miss Dirt Nite.

So the one saving grace of not running dogs at Dirt Nite last night would have…

  • May, 12, 2011

Alternative style therapy dogs.

I have the best dogs ever. Yesterday I had ANOTHER tooth surgery in the effort to…

  • May, 10, 2011

Some UKI agility for a sunny Sunday.

Yesterday, we had a busy Sunday, but we had time to run over to the UKI…

  • May, 9, 2011

Some dogs you don’t put into baskets.

I had thought that Otterpop should begin riding in the basket on my cruiser like her…

  • May, 8, 2011

Further down the low tide beach.

When the tide drops down to the negatives, it’s imperative to get there for our scientfic…

  • May, 6, 2011

I make a gross handling error, settin

How we can see we still have a ways to go in the champion department.

Moving pictures keep us humble. I make a gross handling error, setting Gustavo off on the…

  • May, 5, 2011

One of a kinds.

photo credit: Erika Maurer We had class last night. The dogs ran great. No harm done…

  • May, 4, 2011

Ruby sitting in the shade of the piney trees.

I took Ruby out for a lot of walks around the trial over the weekend. Most…

  • May, 3, 2011

Satellite radio tells us everything we want to know about the dog show over the weekend and also marks our end of mellow 70’s pop hits in the car.

So in the words of mellow 1975 pop hits satellite radio stars America, “Well I tried…

  • May, 2, 2011
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