I refuse to apologize for that. I’ve been holding onto that line since I started the story.
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I think you’re unlikely to get convicted if you hit someone to stop them hurting an animal.
Cannot say: do not know the ways of you legal system.
However, this is not someone trying to defend their pet poodle.
Steve came in to have his biotoys looked at. One of the biotoys insults him, & his attempt at disciplining it is prevented by Dr. Clark striking his face ( though merely with a sorry stick ). The vet decides that he is not attentive enough to the fluffies needs, so she tells him to leave, but keeps his property.
There are some details that could be played upon - Steve hardly has a receipt of purchase, Dr. Clark is an appropriate authority - but it is not as if Steve has dismembered his fluffies in front of a kindergarden, or left a mess on someone else’s Persian rug. Fluffies being legally considered objects does not make Abusers above the law & good taste, but it does have some implications.
Not that Steve will act on any of this, given he is too busy becoming an alcoholic.