Well, he did just say "bisected" so maybe it can still crawl around as a torso or something. But then the puppet actually seemed, you know, agressive enough to keep attacking rather than just take to poking around an igloo so it'd just get annihilated by all the people there, or by Bee when he comes back and explains that it was put down by obviously evil guy that'd been harassing them before in Hyrule.