"Those aren't dogs. You may not have noticed--it may have slipped your mind--but dogs generally have heads. They have paws, they make a noise like ouah, ouah. Such is my experience."

He's not letting go of his branch. "But--you know--another pair of trousers might not be taken amiss." He can always run away once the probably-not-a-demon-but-let's-not-be-hasty is out of sight.