Why don't you do yourself a favor scamper.

I scamper down, I go into the wheelhouse and I say, with some level of incredulity,

If a rat were to scamper through your front door, right now, would you greet it with hostility?

So if you find them in battle, kill them in a manner which makes those behind them scamper back, in the hope that they may learn a lesson.

At the sight of Gregor, who, totally surprised, began to scamper here and there, although no one was chasing him, she remained standing with her hands folded across her stomach staring at him.