Catching up with The Amazingly Well Red Dawg (who is sporting her fancy new southwestern collar) after her brush with death with my son's testy quarter horse mare Piñon.

Tell me, Red Dawg, what have you learned from your experience?

I'm hungry.

Yes, well, we'll get to that in just a few minutes. (Didn't you just gobble down half a can of Trader Joe's Lamb and Rice Dog Food and then some of Lila's too?) What tactics will you use in the future when dealing with testy, pissy mares like Piñon? Any words of wisdom for your fellow Australian Cattle Dogs out there?

Bacon is good.

I guess we'll have to talk some more about horse safety, won't we? And I'm still going to have to watch you like a hawk apparently ...