Redtail Rise i've been watching him for my entire life

if you'd rather we roll, we can, otherwise just kinda doing a little give and take :)

She lunged, and he could not pull back quick enough that she would find purchase in the tenderness of his ankle. Rendered useless on only three legs with one captured between her jaws.

He had no choice but to 'hhow her.

There was no intentional malice in his actions, only the urge to heed her command and treat her the way he had been treated. So he makes to grab her neck, seeking to scruff her off of his ankle more than actually puncture anything.