Neverwinter Forest so there he was...

Almost panicked but not quite there yet. His tail wagged a bit faster for a moment when she asked the question he'd been waiting for, but finished his prior statement first. It's similar to how a rabbit looks around frantically when it hears something moving near it. It doesn't yet know it's in danger and almost freezes in place. That moment, from the opposite direction the rabbit is looking, is your best opportunity to kill it. 

They're both highly finicky, and not hunting either right the first time can result in a loss of time and energy. If you lose a fish, it's almost impossible to regain sight of it again, and by then, it knows it's being hunted. Rabbits tend to blend into the land around them, and it's easier to track them if you lose the sight of them, but that same blending aspect makes them similar to fish, to me. They can both dart very quickly into places a wolf cannot follow.