Mice are cute in pictures of wild animals.  They are not cute when they are eating your chickens' food.  Foxes are likewise savagely elegant until they are terrorizing your farm yard.

 

Both adults and children understand animals; they gravitate to the fields.  In a blaze of inspiration I saw this game and its characters.  I was driving through the country during the springtime when the early morning sunlight reminded me that though it was beautiful, it was a testament that the animals and plants that got to greet this morning were the ones that survived the night.  At this point all the rules of the game flooded over me.  Instead of a game that is turn based where you get to twiddle your thumbs as you wait for your turn to come again,  this game about the animals of a farm yard is based on the time of day.  When it is day you the farmer get to fix everything that is wrong on your farm.  Then comes the night and you get to level the playing field with your neighbors.