Squirrels pumped on ginseng mugged my cat

We always assume that it is humans that are being pressured in the big city .But every creature is adapting trying to chisel out a niche for itself those that do not continue to create opportunities and build on them are pushed out tithe margins .This is true for amoeba that live in ponds the native shrimps that are being overpowered by foreign escapees, grey squirrels that are pushing out the smaller native red squirrels, and now my cat.

Alright my old cat is a destructive, smelly, lazy fat tyrant but he was a fat tyrant in his back yard .Now he is under pressure from squirrel’s not ordinary red native squirrels but big grey drug crazed squirrels .Let me explain.

In my little urban paradise I grow lots of plants some to eat some to turn into money .Ginseng is a cash crop for me .I grow it outside, off the ground under wire to prevent pests damaging the expensive roots.

Yesterday I went outside to get some roots to package that I had sold .To my horror the pots had been turned over and dug into the ginseng roots had disappeared .Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

Suddenly it all made sense.

The previous day I was watching the cat waddling around the garden .He suddenly crouched down and began to slowly stalk something in the trees .As I looked up I saw some brazen squirrels fighting each other unaware of approaching death .

The cat suddenly increased his speed leaping majestically through his air towards his prey.

In a split second the squirrels stopped fighting looked at the cat flying through the air like something from a kung fu slow motion film, turned, jumped onto of him and punched him repeatedly in the head .The cat stunned, twisted in the air claws extended ready to slash his would be assailant .The squirrel, pumped up on my high quality ginseng roots jumped to the ground and proceeded to punch the poor old cat repeatedly in his podgy stomach while he was still in mid flight.

Now sensing that this would not be the easy kill he thought it would be with his ears pinned down ran to the house faster than I have ever seen him move