Eifel, Germany: After observing strange behaviour from farm and wild cats frequenting the back garden of her home in the Eifel countryside, Frau Babs Baum, decided to venture outside to see what all the 'screeching' was about!
Normally, when cats start squealing, they are fighting among each other, chasing hot felines, or weaker males are being chased away by dominant males peeing in their territory. To Babs's surprise there was only one cat with a stiff upper back perched on a vacant bird house, his nickname, Anton The Warrior, quite a softy actually, and never caught a mouse in his sad life! Surprisingly, her terrace was deserted apart from a rather sad looking, lonely fox prowling, a seldom visitor during daily hours.
The fox gave Babs a sly stare, scavenged some leftover cat's food, and then slid away into the thick undergrowth surrounding the terrace. Suddenly, stuck in a huge walnut tree planted in the garden, Babs's least-favourite feline cat, Sheba, appeared, scared stiff, hanging on a branch at the top of the tree hoping the coast was clear, and the fox had gone back to where it belongs, in a foxhole! Sheba is normally the local feline bully among her colleagues and scares the shit out of lesser “mortals’, even human ones!
Sheba shot down the tree after making sure the fox had gone, rushed into the woodshed, and refused to come out. Babs attempted to entice her out of the shed, to no avail, too shocked that a fox would dare enter her 'empire' and nick her food that she normally bullies from other felines waiting in the queue.
Moral of this 'nearly true story' is "Foxes do not hunt cats but try and tell bully-feline-cats crapping in their pants that when a sly, hungry, lonely fox appears in 'their' territory!"
Seldom confrontations of a 'Third Kind' in the Eifel, Germany! Thank the 'cat heavens' there was a vacant tree, and foxes can't climb!
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