After he threw it Red was looking up at the sky expecting to see a flying rabbit, but instead he heard Kyoko scream so THAT IS... A BIG PROBLEM... He really thought the worst thing that could happen would be the creature flying back into his face and that would have been fine.

"Oh crap." Well said! He ran over as soon as he could to help wrestle the rabbit off of her, so that it can chew on him instead of her if successful. "Sorry! My fault."