Killing Field

The 80 years old man lives next door to me is a very kind and lovely old man. Although he has retired a long time ago, he still goes to his company almost everyday for a few hours or so. He said it helped him to work his brain better.

There are a couple of things he enjoys very much when he is not at work. One is to play Backgammon and the other is to work in his garden. He has a very beautiful garden where he not only plants flowers but also fruit trees and vegetables. He is very proud of his garden with all the fruits and vegetables which supplies for their daily food consumption. The flowers are planted for his beautiful wife he told me, what a sweet old man.

On the other side of the garden, he also raises chickens and goats. Over the years, he had raised quite a few beautiful roosters and goats. They are his pride, just like those giant pumpkins and rock melons he harvested from his garden time after time. The chickens are also a source for his family's supply of eggs. They lay so many eggs each day that he has to give them away every couple of days, and I, am the one who benefits most!

From time to time, he would let his chickens come out of the big cage and running around the grass field. He said it would make them grow stronger muscles. What he didn't realize was that, a couple of wild foxes living around the area were also very keen on his chickens.

Last Sunday, a terrible thing happened, while the chickens were roaming around outside the cage, the foxes turned his garden into a killing field. He lost 30 of his good chickens including the two beautiful roosters. He was devastated. He took out his shooting gun but it was all too late.

Those foxes were very strange also, they just killed all the chickens, dragging the dead bodies all over the garden without eating them, as if they were playing a hunting game. It is the only animal that I have known so far that just kill for the sake of killing. Ooops, I shouldn't have said that, there is another animal that also does that to its worst extreme - human!