The chickens were bedraggled. The horses could only just lift up their heads. The pigs lay quietly. Leaving big imprints of their shrunken ribs in the dark dry powder of the earth.

The press crows circled a parched landscape.

There was almost no water on Swamp Farm.

And all because of what became known as the “Oh fi Incident” (explained by the autocorrect result of typing “ihnfi”).

This had not been foreseen (notice a pattern here) when Pig Trump and Snake Bannon had first announced the plan to dam the Cofveve River that went through Swamp Farm.

The Cofveve River came from next door Hockey Puck? Farm, through Swamp Farm and then flowed onto Taco ? Farm.

It had been named the Cofveve because in the old times, no one knew where it came from or where it was going. And it seemed that, once again, that name was eerily appropriate.

When the river had first slowed in summer, Pig Trump had denied it was because too much of the water had been diverted to the Goldman Sachs gold mine – fake news he said.

Instead, Snake Bannon had got the draft horses to build a dam. It was a wonderful success, at first. A big lake had formed. The chickens had washed themselves sleek. There had been plenty of water for the Goldman Sachs gold mine. The jobs of the water rats had been saved.

Sure. Those animals living downstream at Taco Farm had complained that they now did not have enough water. But as Pig Trump said, he was elected to represent Swamp Farm and not those who hung out in the Enchilada Hacienda. He was putting Swamp Farm first.

But as time went on, the level of the lake started to go down. There was even less water than before.

The Prime Minister of Hockey Puck Farm, upstream, said he was elected to represent the pucks, and not the pigs, and had built a new dam on Hockey Puck Farm. And now there was no water for Swamp Farm lake. Or the Goldman Sachs gold mine.

Pig Trump had asked Meerkat Kushner to solve the problem. It seemed plausible at the time. Pig Trump had asked the born on third base ⚾️ 36 year old tenement chicken coop builder to solve the centuries long dispute between Chicken Soup Farm, Sand Farm and Camel Farm. Surely, therefore, nothing was beyond him.

Meerkat Kushner said he would get the water from somewhere else. And he asked the bears to help him build a Back Channel.

But when everyone found out that the water in the Back Channel was only to help Goldman Sachs and the Pigs swimming pool, and that Meerkat Kushner was using the water for 666 Fifth Avenue (never had the devil’s number seemed more appropriate for a street address), there were more demonstrations. Even the red chickens were unhappy.

Will Meerkat Kushner protect Pig Trump? Perhaps say that he was young and naive and was fooled by Goat Putin and the bears – and that ultra tricky question on the national security form – have you met a bear in the last week?

Or will Meerkat Kushner be looking around from behind the wire at Camp Fed on the edge of Swamp Farm and the golden pony Ivanka go back alone to live in the Big Apple Orchard?