Well, it was a shot in the dark from the start. He's not sure if the animal even understood what he said or not, but it sits there, a couple of feet away at most, and he doesn't know if to take that as a good or a bad sign.

He's not so stupid as to try and run away now, but he can't really just stand there and wait forever. So slowly, he takes another very small step backwards, part of his attention on that, part of it focused on lowering his heart rate until the beeping coming from his wrist slows down and falls quiet again.