Folk tale: Animal kingdom

Long ago in the animal kingdom, there was famine. Then, no animal ate each other and none had the intention of doing so. There was also no king in the kingdom.

The fox began to think of ways of gaining food. It occurred to him that the only way to survive the famine was to prey on the weak animals. So he called a meeting of all animals.

In the meeting, he proposed that he should be made the ruler of all animals. He promised to remove hunger by allowing the animals to prey on each other.

Prior to this meeting, he had met most of his evil friends who had promised to support him and to punish anyone that refuses to support him. So when the monkey's rose to say that they were not in support of Mr. Fox's intention, they were chased away by the supporters of Mr. Fox. To save their lives, they ran up different trees and refused to come down. That is why monkeys live on trees till today.

Out of fear, other animals could not oppose Mr. Fox. He became the king of the animals in that community. Soon, he began to cause havoc in the kingdom. Everyday, he would come out to the community center and begin to challenge different animals to fight with him. When the animal comes out to fight him, he would use trickery to kill the animals and take the meat home to his family. Every animal in the kingdom soon became afraid of his underhanded way of doing things. The weak animals began to stay indoors all the time for fear of being killed by Mr. Fox or his evil supporters.

When Mr. Fox learnt that all the animals were avoiding him, he began to conduct house to house visitation. Any animal he visits, he would kill and take the meat home or share with his supporters.

When all these things were happening in the kingdom, Mr. Dog was not around. He had gone to another kingdom to make money. He came back to the kingdom in the midst of this conflict to be informed by his wife that Mr. Fox was now a dictator in the kingdom. His wife also told him in tears that Mr. Fox has demanded to fight with him. This meant his death. All these did not bother Mr. Dog.

He was still grieving the fact that his journey to hustle in another kingdom turned out to be in vain.

He had purchased some bags of salt with hopes of selling them to make enough money for his family but a heavy rain befell him on the road. The whole salt melted from the rain. He lost his investment.

He sat down in front of his compound to think about his loss. As he was deep in thought, he spotted Mr. Fox who was on his way to fight a poor old goat.

This got him annoyed and so he challenged Mr. Fox to a fight. His intention was to stop the evil reign of Mr. Fox and bring freedom back to the remaining animals in the kingdom.

On the day of the fight, Mrs. Dog cried bitterly on the thought that she would loose her husband but to her surprise, Mr. Dog killed the might Mr. Fox. Mr. Dog was able to achieve this victory because his strength was fuelled by the anger of loosing his investments as well as the anger of loosing his friends to the evil hands of Mr. Fox.

When the other animals saw that Mr. Dog had won in the life and death challenge, they were filled with fear. They thought that since Mr. Fox had made their life hard, anyone who was able to kill him would make their lives a living hell. They ran away from the kingdom and are now what we know as wild animals.

The weaker animals that could not afford to run away from the kingdom stayed back to celebrate with Me. Dog over their freedom. They are what we know now as the domestic animals.

Mr. Dog did not intend to be a ruler, so he told every animal to live as they liked as he would not interfere in their lives. This is why he is man's best friend. Because he is compassionate and lovely.

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