I can't comment on what is normal Savannah behavior, but my kitten has a lot of Savannah personality traits, and we spend a lot of time in the garden, and he likes to hanging out wit me by the pond watching dragon flies & butterflies that are almost close enough to catch and birds that are way beyond reach. He can go down there by himself, but so far he waits for me and then when I am out he will go racing down there looking to see if I am coming. If I don't he comes back.
What I have noticed is he gets really stimulated watching the stuff he wishes he could catch and then he wants to play with me and a cat toy, or just play with me. And one game he plays is hide and go seek which he tries to start by pouncing on my legs or occasionally my back if I am squatting, like I am a big mouse. He often bites me gently as a way of saying put me down, stop bugging me, but when he pounces on me he is a perfect gentleman with gentle velvet paws.
He has come close to catching a couple snakes that I have restrained him from going after, and at the time he struggles to get free, but once they get away, he has not seemed to resent this, that I could see.
The mice he has caught he plays with for a long time after they are dead. Doesn't eat them, but a couple days later he will sometimes find and bring them back into the house to play some more after I have tossed them into the bushes. (Yuck! Then I take them away and hide them better) And weirdly, unlike any cat I have had before, if I grab the dead rodent he is still playing with by the tail to move it, he doesn't get possessive and growl, instead he begins to purr and continues to if I will toss it in the air a few times myself. He is more into togetherness than any cat I have had before.
So... maybe Remi was feeling excited and playful? And was hoping you might be in the mood to play and hunt squirrels?
If he was feeling resentful he is smarter than Moggie.
