He nodded thoughtfully, then spoke as he realised the dim light would make it harder to see. "Yeah, animals don't exactly keep to a schedule for when they get ill," he said. "I don't either most of the time, but it's nice to take a weekend off when I've been busy."
Crups being made to fight? That didn't sound good, and he said so. "That's horrible, why would anyone do that to an animal?" he asked, indignant.
"Oh!" he said, gesturing as the lights started to dim for the round of advertising and previews running up to the film itself. In a cinema with lots of families it was never going to be completely quiet, but that didn't mean they should really add to the noise.