When we were little kids, our pet German Sepherd bit the ear off of a poodle. Us kids all took up for our dog, we figured he was in the right, the poodle came up to our dog who was just minding his own business, and started verbally trashing him, so our dog just took his ear off.
ROTFL! He had to have been asking for it ;~D
sounds perfectly reasonable tuh me...