"Indeed, but that is no excuse for a lack of manners." Especially with people that he will arguably be working with a great deal in the future, while they are all here and dealing with various unknown threats. For now...

He straightens up, eyes narrowed a bit as he raises a foot. Within his grasp is what appears at first glance to simply be a normal rabbit, trembling subtly in what likely feels like certain death for a prey animal. You know, with the giant claws grasping onto it. Yet something seems off about it...

"Are you familiar with wildlife, Dimitri? I believe that one of its limbs is injured - and before I managed to grab it. It would explain the odd movement I noted..." Which is probably why he was willing to believe it was an ID beneath the snow. "However, it would be nice to have another look over it."

And he thinks there's some sort of strange stickiness to parts of its fur as well...