The honesty is pretty obvious here and it's rather unnerving. Was this worse than an accident? Worse than being blamed for it? He's not sure, only that this honesty was bad in its own way.

"I'd rather not turn into a dog that might just go and eat people, as a start." Connor doesn't think it's going to make that much of a difference to Party. He's clearly set in his ways about this, clearly knows what he wants to think about this curse.