AGENT BAUER

The laid-back hipster

UNLIKE HIS NAMESAKE, a television protagonist who has just 24 hours to save the world, basset hound mix Bauer doesn’t really seem to have a care in it, and he is in exactly zero hurry to get anywhere, except perhaps when he is benignly pursuing one or more of the cats who live with him in a charming L Streets abode. He can build up some speed when he’s chasing the cats, say owners Andee Pittman-Clark and Colin Clark. He’s perfectly content sleeping all day. In the evenings he might move from napping in the house to relaxing in the front-yard hammock. But he also is up for adventure. “Bauer loves to canoe, explore, play with other dogs and kids,” Andee says. He also happily rides in the sidecar of an antique bicycle taxi the couple refurbished after it landed in the bicycle shop they own. The shop, Switching Gears Cyclery near Fair Park, happens to be one of the very few things Agent Bauer, basset hound mix, does not like. “There are loud noises. People coming in and out. I guess it just makes him a little nervous,” Andee says. “We joke that he hates work.” carrconner . com