Herbs and uses
•Alder bark - Toothaches. Eat.
•Alfalfa - used to prevent tooth decay.
•Aloe Vera - Use the gel inside of leaves to cure skin problems or burns.
•Ash (tree) - New shoots are to be eaten, and chewed and applied to the bite of an Adder or Viper to stave off the effects of its poisoned bite.
•Beech Leaves - used for carrying herbs.
•Bindweed - used to fasten sticks to broken limbs to keep them in place.
•Blackberry Leaves - when chewed to a pulp, it helps eases the swelling of bee stings.
•Blessed Thistle - increases circulation of blood
•Borage Leaves - used to treat fevers and helps nursing mothers with their milk supply. Borage should never be used dried, only green.
•Bramble Twigs - Chew this into a fine syrup. It helps to sleep.
•(Broken) Rosemary Blossoms - used to heal eye infection or to cover up wounds around the eyes or eyelids.
•Broom - poultice helps broken legs and other serious wounds
•Burdock Root - When the dug up root has been washed, it can be chewed into a pulp which is good for all cuts and scrapes, especially rat bites, even if they're infected.
•Burnet - Used in traveling herbs. Helps wounds heal faster.
•Catch Weed - Burrs can be used to help hold treatment onto a cat.
•Catmint - used to treat whitecough and greencough; can help to relax a cat
•Celandine - used to treat ailments of the eyes. Used to strengthen weak eyes.
•Chamomile - used to calm a cat. Leaves and Flowers may be consumed to sooth a cat and add to their physical strength.
•Chervil - used to treat bellyache. The juices of the leaves are used for infected wounds, and chewing the roots helps with bellyache.
•Chickweed - used to help treat greencough. If there is no catmint around, it is a good substitute to counter greencough.
•Cob Nuts - made into ointments.
•Cobwebs - used to stop bleeding. Generally only used with wounds that risk bleeding heavily as they can cause increased risk of infection.
•Coltsfoot - This flowering herb is effective against kittencough, and the leaves can be chewed into a pulp which can be eaten to help shortness of breath
•Comfrey - used to treat broken bones
•Daisy Leaves - If chewed into a paste it can be a useful remedy for aching joints.
•Dandelion Leaves - used to calm a cat
•Deadly Nightshade - small dark purple berries that are just as poisonous as deathberries
•Deathberries - Deathberries (known to Twolegs as yew) are so poisonous that a single berry can kill a young cat. Extremely deadly
•Dock - Good for making a cat's coat as slippery as a fish, the leaf can also be chewed up and applied to soothe scratches. (Chew it up and spit it out to make a cat's coat slippery). Also good for treating rat bites.
•Dried Oak Leaf - Used to stop infections.
•Echinacea - Used to ease infection.
•Fennel Stalks - break the stalks and squeeze the juices into the recipient’s mouth to ease hip pain.
•Ferns - Used to clean out wounds.
•Feverfew - used to cool feverish cats and treat head pain. Leaves can be used to reduce fever, in addition to being consumed to aid against colds and stomach ailments.
•Foxglove - Seeds are used to help the heart, but they can EASILY cause paralysis and heart failure. The leaves are used on deep wounds to stop bleeding quickly. ALMOST ALWAYS KILLS! USE AS A LAST RESORT (IF EVER)!
•Ginger - used for asthma and coughs
•Goldenrod - A poultice of goldenrod is great for healing wounds, and can also help aching joints and stiffness.
•Grass - use to treat bellyache
•Gumweed - Helps seal wounds from infection and helps to heal the wound quicker
•Hawthorn Berries - Used for indigestion
•Hawkweed - useful when treating illnesses.
•Hedgehog Buds - Used to treat/cure runny noses
•Heather Nectar - used to sweeten herbs.
•Holly Berries - POISONOUS! While not as dangerous as deathberries, they are still a danger to kits.
•Honey - used to treat sore throats. Particularly good for smoke inhalation.
•Horsetail - The leaves of this tall plant can be used to treat infected wounds, usually by being chewed up for a poultice. The sap can also be used in combination with cobwebs to stop heavy bleeding
•Iris - Used to stimulate breathing during the birthing process; can also be used for kit's sore throats. Everything but the petals is poisonous.
•Ivy - Used to help calm a cat and help heal small scrapes. Also used for coughs, if nothing else is available.
•Juniper Berries - used to treat bellyache. Berries ease the stomach and can serve as a counter poison. Leaves are used to ease coughs and other respiratory problems. Also used to help treat shock.
•Lamb's Ear - used to give a cat strength
•Lavender - Leaves & flowers are particularly good when eaten for easing pains in head and throat, and curing fever. Inhaling the scent of fresh flowers can also calm the nerves.
•Lotus - Used as an energizer to help keep you awake.
•Mallow Leaves - Used to treat bellyaches.
•Marigold - The petals or leaves can be chewed into a pulp for a poultice to wounds, as well as stopping infections. One of the best herbs for cracked paw pads. If eaten can make a cat expel poisons from the body by vomiting.
•Milkweed - Use to treat sores or burns. Do not use around ears or eyes. Poisonous when eaten.
•Moss - Makes good bedding
•Mouse Bile - used to remove ticks from a cat's coat. Press on ticks. Soon they'll drop off. Warning! Do NOT eat mouse bile or you'll have that horrible taste in your mouth for days! To carry around, put mouse bile in a big leaf and wrap up the leaf and you can carry. Be sure to wash your paws when done. In a stream of course!!!!
•Narcissus - Soothes a cat when she is having contractions
•Nettle (leaves) - The leaves are applied to reduce swelling
•Nettle (seeds) - used to counter poison. The seeds are swallowed
•Parsley - Used to stop the flow of a queen's milk; also used to soothe bellyaches.
•Pawpaw - Used to treat kittencough
•Poppy Seeds - The best herb there is to numb pain, distress, and shock and ensure a good night's sleep
•Ragweed - used to give a cat strength *similar to Lamb's Ear
•Ragwort - Even though ragwort is used for medicinal uses, it is highly poisonous, as it often gets cows and horses very sick. Use yarrow right away. Juniper also helps afterward. Don't eat!!! Use alongside juniper berries in a poultice to treat aching joints.
•Raspberry - An herb used in kitting, It could be a painkiller, or to help stop bleeding during the kitting.
•Rosinweed - Used to clean out the system when poisons have been digested
•Rush - Used to bind broken bones
•Sage Roots - Use for cracked pads, use with poppy seeds
•Skullcap Seeds - Used to give a cat extra strength
•Snakeroot - used to counter poison
•Sorrel - used to soothe scratches
•Stinging Nettle - The leaves are used to reduce swelling. The seeds are used to counter poison by inducing vomiting.
•Tansy - used to treat coughs. Leaves may be chewed to relieve joint aches. Flowers should be consumed to remove coughs. Pregnant Queens should NEVER be given Tansy, because it causes miscarriages.
•Thyme - Should be consumed to calm the anxious cat, or to aid in bringing restful sleep.
•Tormentil - chew this and place it on the wound to expel poison.
•Water Mint - The best cure for bellyaches. Eat. Has a really good minty taste, you'll know when you eat it.
•Wild Garlic - rolling in this can help to keep out infection. If you got lots of cuts and scrapes, especially from rat bites, make sure you roll in some wild garlic to keep out infection.
•Willow Tree - Water from beneath the bark of the flowering willow may be dripped into the eyes to help clear blurriness of vision. It may also be applied to dry patches of skin to sooth itches. Small amounts of Willow Bark may be consumed to ease pain, act against inflammation, and to ease diarrhea or fevers.
•Windflower - Used to treat stomach cramps, such as when a she -cat becomes pregnant
•Wintergreen - used to treat wounds and some poison.
•Witch Hazel - Used to give you an extra boost, this will wake you up (energizer)
•Yarrow - used to make a cat vomit and expel poisons from the body. Entire plant should be consumed to induce vomiting. Entire plant should be chewed and applied to wounds to relieve pain and prevent infection. Only give it to cats that ate something poisonous. Sometimes when cats are really sick yarrow is used to make the patient vomit out the sickness. That only works sometimes. This herb can also be used as an ointment, used to soften paw pads
•Yew (Deathberries) (Night Seeds) - POISONOUS! Roots & leaves may be chewed together and applied to sore places. If a cat eats them (most likely a kit), then scoop all the berry leftovers out of their mouth. Then force them to swallow yarrow. The victim will vomit out most of the poison, but not all of it. They will be very sick for the next few days.
Healing Treatments and Mixtures
•Aching Joints - Ragwort leaves, Juniper berries, Goldenrod, or Daisy leaves
•Bee Stings - Blackberry leaves
•Broken Bones - Wrap in cobwebs, put on comfrey pulp, use poppy seeds to dull pain
•Bellyache - Chervil, Watermint, or Juniper berries. Also, try a trip to the dirtplace.
•Coughs (whitecough or greencough) - Use either Catmint, Honey, or Tansy, and keep the cat away from other cats.
•Cuts in Eye - Trickle Celandine juice into the eye to ease the pain.
•Deep Wounds Cobwebs, Marigold, or Horsetail.
•Displaced Bones - Give poppy seed, wait for effect, then have cat bite stick while you give the leg a tug and hear it click into place, give them another poppy seed so they sleep.
•Dull Pain - Use poppy seed, then when it takes effect preform treatment, give them another to sleep.
•Hurting Throat - Honey, or water.
•Nettle Stings - Dock leaf pulp, give poppy seed so it dulls the pain and helps cat sleep.
•Poison - If poison is in stomach, give cat yarrow leaves so they vomit the poison, have them vomit onto dock leaves
•Prevent Infection and Soothe Pain for Burns - Comfrey, honey.
•Poultice for aching joints - Ragwort leaves and juniper berries.
•Poultice for broken bones - Stinging nettle and comfrey.
•Rat Bites - A poultice of burdock root with cobwebs on top, and horsetail if it is available
•Scratches - Marigold, horsetail
•Shock - Thyme or Chamomile. Lick fur to comfort, give water and poppy seeds.
•Stiffness - Crushed poppy seeds, marigold or comfrey.
•Strengthening Herbs - Tansy, watermint, or feverfew.
•Toothache - Use alder bark.
•Traveling and Strengthening Herbs - Chamomile, burnet, daisy leaves or sorrel. Lambs ear and ragweed also work.
•Wrenched Muscles - Comfrey, nettle and/or water therapy
Gestures
•Lick below the chin: “I want you forever!”
•Lick on the nose: “Do you want to play?”
•Rubs tail anywhere: Flirty, comforting or curious.
•Rubbing against you: “I like you.”/“Don’t worry.”/“I love you.”
•Licking constantly: Cleaning.
•Flat ears: “Back off!”
•Bares teeth: “Get away from me!"
•Lunging at you: “Back off now!”
•Roll on your back: “You are stronger than me, I respect you.”
•Tail tucked: Scared.
•Growling/Hissing/Spitting: Angry or accenting
•Touching noses: “I like you!”
•Lick on the cheek: “I really like you.”
•Lick on the ear: Comforting.
•Lick on forehead: “I love you!”/“Will you be my mate?”
•Brushing tail on back or flank: Calming.
•Lick under/on belly: “I want kits.”
•Touching nose to cheek: “I’m happy for you”/Comforting.
•Nuzzle: Comfort/“You’re hilarious!”
•Touch nose to cheek: “I’m glad you’re here.”
•Lick own chest fur: To hide embarrassment.
•Lick on the shoulder: Respect.
•Lick on the tail: “Will you be my mate?”
•Twitch of the Whiskers: "Amused"
TAIL SIGNALS:
Tail Held Erect: Stop
Tail Rippling: Move Forward With Care
Tail Held Erect and Sweeping Slowly from Side to Side: Retreat Silently
Tail Pointing Low, Parallel to the Ground and Sweeping: Spread Out
Tail Flattened: Get Down
Tail Bobbing: Enemy Sighted
Tail Hooked: Danger
Tail Pointed Sharply: Go That Way
Tail Held Erect and Waving from Side to Side: Stay Behind Me
Tail Kinked over Back: Follow Me
Tail Flicking over Back: Leave, but Be Careful
Tail Tip Facing Other Way: Attack
TAIL FLICKS:
•A bristle and a sharp flick of your tail usually means, "Get over here now! I'm angry with you!"
•A flick and jerking your heard in a certain direction means, "Meet me to the bushes at your left" or "Sneak out of camp with me through the brambles to the right."
•If you call out to someone and their back is to you, they can flick their tail to show that they've heard.
Sticking your tail straight up in the air and flicking it sharply down means, "Sit!"
An eye-roll and a flick of the tail means, "Whatever."
•A marrow of laughter and a flick of a tail means, "That was a good joke."
Saying, "Oh, fox-dung, I gotta go!" and flicking your tail means, "Sorry! Talk to you later?"
Flicking your tail at a she-cat's belly and smiling means, "She's expecting kits!"
•Flicking your tail at someone and making a face means, "What is wrong with him?"
•A sharp flick of your tail during battle can mean two things; it can mean, "Attack!" or it can mean, "Help me!"
•A shrug and a tail flick means, "Oh well."
Warrior code
1. Defend your Clan, even at the cost of your life. You may have friendships with cats from other clans, but your loyalty must remain with your clan, as one day you may meet them in battle.
2. Do not hunt, or trespass in other Clan's territory
3. Elders and kits must be fed before apprentices and warriors. Unless they have permission, apprentices may not eat until they have hunted and fed the elders.
4. Prey is killed only to be eaten. Thanks Starclan for its life.
5. A kit must be at least six moons old to become an apprentice.
6. Newly appointed warriors will keep vigil for one night after receiving their warrior name.
7. A cat can not become deputy without having at least mentored one apprentice.
8. The deputy will become the clan leader when the leader dies or retires
9. After the death of retirement of a deputy, a new deputy must be chosen.
10. A gathering of all 4 clans is held at the full moon during a truce that lasts for the night.
11.Boundaries must be checked and marked daily. Challenge all trespassing cats.
12. No warrior may neglect a kit in pain or in danger, even if that kit is from a different clan.
13. The word of the clan leader is the warrior code.
14. An honarable warrior does not need to kill other cats to win his battles, unless they are outside the warrior code or it is necessary for self-defense.
15. A warrior rejects the soft life of a kittypet.
Fighting moves
•Back Kick - Explosive surprise move to catch opponent from behind. Judge opponent's distance from you carefully, then lash out with your back legs, taking all weight on your front paws.
•Belly Rake - A fight-stopper. Slice with unsheathed claws against the soft flesh of the opponent's belly. If you're pinned down, the belly rake quickly puts you back into control.
•Front Paw Blow - Frontal attack. Bring your front paw down hard on your opponent's head. Claws sheathed.
•Front Paw Strike/Forepaw Slash - Frontal attack. Slice downward with your front paw at the face or body of your opponent.
•Killing Bite - A death blow to the back of the neck. Quick and silent and sometimes considered dishonorable. Used only as a last resort.
•Leap-and-hold - Ideal for a small cat facing a larger opponent. Spring onto opponent's back and grip with unsheathed claws. Now you are beyond the range of the opponent's paws and in position to inflict severe body wounds. A group of apprentices can defeat a large and dangerous warrior in this way. Watch for the drop-and-roll counter move, and try to jump free before you get squashed.
•Partner Fighting - Warriors who have trained and fought together will often fall instinctively into a defensive position, each protecting each other's back while fending off an opponent on either side. Slashing, clawing, and leaping together, battle pairs can be a whirlwind of danger for attackers.
•Play Dead - Effective in a tight situation, such as when you are pinned. Stop struggling and go limp. When your opponent relaxes his grip, thinking you are defeated, push yourself up explosively. This will throw off an unwary opponent and put you in attacking position.
•Scruff Shake - Secure a strong teeth grip in the scruff of your opponents neck; then shake violently until he or she is too rattled to fight back. Most effective against rats, who are small enough to throw. A strong throw will stun or kill them.
•Tail Yank - Grab your opponent's tail and yank it with such force your opponent is thrown off balance.
•Teeth Grip - Target your opponent's extremities- the legs, tail, scruff or ears- and sink in your teeth and hold. This move is similar to the leap-and-hold except your claws remain free to fight.
•Upright Lock - Final, crushing move on already weakened opponent. Rear up on back legs and bring weight down on opponent. If opponent does the same, wrestle and flip him under you. This makes you vulnerable to the belly rake, so it takes great strength and speed.
•Half-Turn Belly Rake - Turn onto your side, slip under the opponent's belly, rake it with your claws, then swiftly turn back onto all fours out from under your opponent.
•Badger Defense: Leap over opponent, turn on your back legs and bite opponent's leg. Used only when fighting badgers.
•Duck and Twist: Simple defensive move. The cat ducks then twists around, rolling over onto his/her back, and then springs to their paws.
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