Why should the guy have anticipated that the dragon would eat him? He’s been poking around in the garage doing various experiments, and during all that time the dragon has merely stomped around and avoided him, showing no interest in eating him at all.
Also: why does he call it a dragon, and not just an “invisible creature”? Dragon is a pretty narrow category.
The dragon didn’t eat him before because it wasn’t hungry. If there’s a tiger in your garage, it probably won’t attack you as soon as it sees you, but the longer you spend in its vicinity, the greater your chances of being mauled.
The footprints were dragon-shaped, and it preferentially targeted the types of dogs that dragons most like to eat.
[...]it preferentially targeted the types of dogs that dragons most like to eat.
But that doesn’t exclude other creatures. For example, the Giant Chupacabra is known to have similar preferences for the kinds of dogs it eats (when it can’t find goats, its preferred meal).
Why should the guy have anticipated that the dragon would eat him? He’s been poking around in the garage doing various experiments, and during all that time the dragon has merely stomped around and avoided him, showing no interest in eating him at all.
Also: why does he call it a dragon, and not just an “invisible creature”? Dragon is a pretty narrow category.
The dragon didn’t eat him before because it wasn’t hungry. If there’s a tiger in your garage, it probably won’t attack you as soon as it sees you, but the longer you spend in its vicinity, the greater your chances of being mauled.
The footprints were dragon-shaped, and it preferentially targeted the types of dogs that dragons most like to eat.
But that doesn’t exclude other creatures. For example, the Giant Chupacabra is known to have similar preferences for the kinds of dogs it eats (when it can’t find goats, its preferred meal).