Needed more giant racoon-dog testicles.
Maybe that WAS the source of the... nah, that's way too disgusting a thought, even for me.
At any rate, I got quite a chuckle out of this story. Not every story needs to be deep, thought provoking, and maudlin. There's something wonderful to be said for a nice, light fable. It's part of why I'm really enjoying the Peter S. Beagle flash-fiction. Fantasy, due to its roots in the fantastic, lends itself really well to this kind of light fable story.