It's easy to loose it in a situation like that.
If it was a person, (and yes there is people out there who this kind of thing for some reason) you would, and rightly so, flake the tar out of them, but an animal, they don't know any better, and you would regret it weather someone was there or not.
Well I would anyway.
Every cloud has a silver lining, just think of the remodelling lol.
Atb j