Tamara growls in frustration as the rodent steps to the side, avoiding her pounce. The tigress lands with her usual feline grace, still looking at Monique, and grins when she sees the kanaroo-rat runs into a bush and falls on the ground. She's quickly on top of the rodent, placing both her forepaws on her back, keeping her down with her weight. Out of Monique's sight, the tigress' tail waggs very happily, knowing she got her prey for good this time.<br/><br/>A low menacing growl fill up the air, as Tamara lowers her muzzle towards Monique's head. She sniffs her hair some, then nibble at her ears, her sharp fangs pricking small bleeding holes on the soft skin of the rat's ears. Then she moves her muzzle downwards, and opens her jaws, slowly, kinda delicately, closing her maw around Monique's neck. She just holds her for the moment, fangs pressing against the skin but not breaking it, her warm breathe flowing over it. She could kill the rodent right now. She'd just have to close her jaws, thus crushing her prey's throat, and end her life quickly. But she won't do that. She just want to scare Monique more, and make her understand clearly who's got power over who.