I know, but you have to teach them when they're young. Or else they grow up with bad manners.

[Not that he'd mind that himself either. If anything, the harder the cat scratched or bit, the more likely he'd bleed, and it's not like it'd ever be deep enough to hurt.

But the crooning is even more endearing somehow, and Henry latches on a bit tighter for a moment.]

Ooor we could make a vicious killer out of her! You've seen the way she tears into the fake mice I make.