"Not that I haven't appreciated your leniency toward creatures with homicidal tendencies, but I really think it's time for you to move beyond that. You don't understand what you're dealing with here. Ornery is a mild term for Dick the Cat."

"I think it's because of his name. I tried to warn you. But do you ever listen to me?"

He shakes his head. They weren't going to listen, and BOOM! It wasn't going to be his fault, but how to keep them from the fallout? Literally.