“...predator had 21 minutes to bleed out before the ambulance got there....”
Doesn’t it warm the cockles of your heart?
A surgeon offered to remove my cockles, theorizing that I don’t use them and they’ll only give me trouble later anyway, but I refused.
You did good in keeping them from removing your cockles; otherwise, you’d have nothing to be warmed.
In my case, I have to keep them from removing my spleen, otherwise I’d have nothing to vent.