Sea Lion Shores a rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction

Had this thread up before with no response, just so you know you're not crazy if you think you read this before. :P Someone come play this time! <3

Drool flowed with abandon from his mouth as his bony toes flexed upon the rocks of the shoreline. His ribs showed prominent beneath his wild and befouled coat, his stomach sunken with perpetual hunger. He stood hunched, his lead lowered beneath pointed shoulders as he stared out across the tide pools, tattered ears turning this way and that. He slinked nearer to them, his path erratic and indirect. He approached one with his scrawny side toward it, strafing the last bit of distance before halting at its edge. He sniffed in scrutiny, then lowered his nose to a clump of seaweed. He lifted it and crab scuttled forth, and he darted forward to capture it. Its flailing claws pinched his lip before his teeth crushed and splintered its shell. A chunk of pale meat fell from his jaws onto the stone. He finished devouring what was left of the crustacean between his teeth, before moving to check the next pile of kelp, scooping up the bits he had lost as he stepped ahead.