laura hartwick

visual generalist • friend to animals • somewhat fast runner

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Right up there with the time we listened to 8 hours of Christmas music without stopping and frankly, we were never the same since.

This adorable Christmas moppet dashed across a road near the Fish and Game office yesterday evening,…

  • Dec, 8, 2009

Covered with dogs during the plague.

I have been sick. Like should have been lying in bed sick all week but still…

  • Dec, 7, 2009

I am sick. The dogs are unexercised. They make me pay.…

  • Dec, 4, 2009

We interrupt Team Small Dog for a little bit of burly lumberjack horse agility from an undisclosed foreign country.

I’m not usually a Click On This Video person. If you email me a video, I…

  • Dec, 3, 2009

A historical geography lesson in the context of difficult weave pole entries, not to be confused with stipper poles.

I went out to practice really early yesterday morning before work, because I wanted to see…

  • Dec, 2, 2009

The time that Laura and Team Small Dog goes to the Silvia Trkman Seminar and does some pulling up by the bootstrap character building.

This is me and my new pal Silvia Trkman. She came all the way from Slovenia…

  • Dec, 1, 2009

The time that me and Susan Garrett review the same movies except that she doesn’t mention Metallica and I vote for Kirk Hammet not Captain Kirk.

So a kind of weird and surprising, yet unsurprising thing, was when this morning, I go…

  • Nov, 30, 2009

A step towards my quest towards being a Retired Person in a hooky day from work on a beautiful Thanksgiving weekend.

I totally played hooky from work and took the dogs out to a Fun Match at…

  • Nov, 29, 2009

A fast visit to the forest where Otterpop may have been let off her leash for a couple laps around the swimming hole just because I really suck.

Everybody loves the forest I like to call the Grotto By the Abandonded Car. Even though…

  • Nov, 28, 2009

The time that each member Team Small Dog gets tied to a kid and you think you see fast running at dog shows-HA!

I hired this bunch of kids from the hood to run the dogs yesterday. Emphasis on…

  • Nov, 27, 2009

Team Small Dog interview of the weekish, Sue Rush and her dogs, Maddie and Piper who are totally cool and Happy Thanksgiving!

Welcome, wayward Bayteamers who wanted to know lots and lots about Sue Rush, the featured Cool…

  • Nov, 26, 2009

Let’s just go to our happy place right now because how many of us will be in line at the grocery store tonite instead of running with the dog in dirt?

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  • Nov, 25, 2009

Preparing for the future, which either will involve dog shows and the Silvia Trkman seminar or else motorskooter riding zombie death squads.

There are some days when the dogs do everything perfect. They blow me away with their…

  • Nov, 24, 2009

Team Small dog visits the forest, and the same old story starts again.

So on a Sunday when I don’t work, and there’s no dog thing to go to,…

  • Nov, 23, 2009

Hola Gustavo!-Up close and personal tips about learning how to do the bucket trick.

Hola! I have put my feet upon the bucket and righteously rocking on DUDES! Hola Otterpop!…

  • Nov, 22, 2009

Training dogs to do tricks for no better reason that because I am so very, easily amused.

So the last couple weeks, when I go out to where I practice with the dogs,…

  • Nov, 21, 2009

Getting ready for the Sylvia Trkman seminar by regressing into an insecure, hair wadded diva.

My friend Rob took this at the last USDAA trial we were at. Like a couple…

  • Nov, 19, 2009

Sometimes things are just so very simple.

I got done at work in time to get to the low tide beach before the…

  • Nov, 18, 2009

I don’t hate Mondays.

I haven’t had a lot of days off lately. Could anything be funner than to hang…

  • Nov, 17, 2009

The commentator shrieks, “She just SMOKED it!” and Rob goes, “I guess SO!”

A bunch of our dog agility friends were big winners tonight! Congratulations to all of them.…

  • Nov, 15, 2009

Thinking different part 2-this is sort of about dog training if you can just get past the part about the naked, sandy people.

A long time ago, in a land called the 80’s, I lived in a crappy, falling…

  • Nov, 13, 2009

Thinking different to make a change.

Last night I taught a different group of agility students than I normally teach. One great…

  • Nov, 12, 2009

Team Small dog possibly really needs to go on vacation and proof that Laura is just a retired person trapped in a non retired person body.

I think November is a month where things repeat themselves. The weather starts to turn and…

  • Nov, 11, 2009

Here’s the part where she’ll try to sell you something because of capitalism and all.

You know what would be a good idea? Buy all your Christmas gifts from me. This…

  • Nov, 10, 2009
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