It all happens with such gentleness as to suggest kisses rather than bites.

As children, teasing one another, we used to talk of "tweaksies" to express a slight squeeze of the finger-tips, something more like a tickling than a serious pinch.

Let us use that word.

In conversing with animals, language loses nothing by remaining juvenile.

It is the right way for the simple to understand one another.
The Lampyris doles out his tweaks.