Listen, it's more fun to have an excuse for this kind of thing. Just like it's more fun to twirl around, enormous tail bumping into walls and anything else that gets in its way, so that he can start to hop away. There's a sort of fun to just hopping around like this, he has to admit....

"Pesagni, my deer!"

...A beat, and he starts to cackle like the absolute jackass that he is.