Animation Question: Character gets bitten

I dont know how to solve this issue: I have a animated Char that gets bitten by a Lion. I play the bite animation of the lion and the get_bitten animation of the char but it looks silly becouse the lion does not bite INTO the char. There is emtpy space between.

I dont know how to connect the Lion with the Char, so it looks like he gets bitten in the leg. Even if i would transform the position of the lion, it would still not look 'real'.

It would be nice if someone can lead me on the right path.