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Warrior Code

♣ Defend your Clan at all costs, even if your life is in danger. You may be friends with other cats in different Clans, but just remember that you will meet them in battle one day.

♣ Do not hunt or trespass on another Clans' territory, they will have the right to attack you if you do.

♣ Elders and kits must be fed first. Unless if they have permission, warriors and apprentices may not eat before they do.

♣ Give thanks to StarClan for the prey that you catch. It is killed only to be eaten.

♣ A kit must be at least 6 moons old until it can start training as an apprentice.

♣ Newly appointed warriors must sit silent vigil for one night after receiving their name.

♣ A cat cannot be deputy without having mentored at least one apprentice in its lifetime.

♣ The deputy will become leader if the leader somehow dies or steps down.

♣ After the death or the retirement of the deputy, a new replacement must be appointed before moonhigh.

♣ A gathering of all four Clans is held at the full moon during a truce that lasts the entire night. It is dictated that there will be no fighting during this time.

♣ Boundaries must be patrolled and marked day after day; challenge all trespassers.

♣ No warrior may ignore a kit in danger, even if that kit is from a rival Clan.

♣ The Leader's word is the warrior code

♣ A true warrior does not have to kill a cat to win a battle, unless if they are outside the code and is necessary for self-defense.

♣ A warrior rejects the simple life of a kittypet

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Medicine Cat Herbs

• Borage Leaves: to be chewed or eaten. The plant can be identified by its small blue or pink star-shaped flowers and hairy leaves. Great for nursing queens as it helps increase their supply of milk. It also helps to bring down a fever

• Burdock Root: a tall stemmed, sharp-smelling thistle with dark leaves. A medicine cat must dig up the roots, wash off the dirt, and chew them into a pulp, which can be applied to rat bites. It also cures infection.

• Catmint (catnip): a delicious-smelling, leafy, plant that is hard to find in the wild; often found growing in Twoleg gardens. The best remedy for greencough.

• Chervil: a sweet-smelling plant with large, spreading, fern-like leaves and small white flowers. The juice of the leaves can be used for infected wounds, and chewing the roots can help with bellyache.

• Cobweb: spiderwebs can be found all over the forest; be careful not to bring along the spider when you bring back the web! Medicine cats wrap it around and injury to soak up the blood and keep the wound clean. It excels at stopping bleeding.

• Coltsfoot: a flowering plant; a bit like a dandelion, with yellow or white flowers. The leaves can be chewed into a pulp, which is eaten to help shortness of breath.

• Comfrey: identifiableby its large leaves and small bell-shaped flowers, which can be pink, white, or purple. The fat black roots of this plant can be chewed into a poultice to mend broken bones or soothe wounds.

• Dock: a plant similar to sorrel. The leaf can be chewed up and applied to soothe scratches.

• Dried Oak Leaf: collected in the autumn and stored in a dry place. Stops most infections.

• Feverfew: a small bush with flowers like daisies. The leaves can be eaten to cool down body temperature, particularly for cats with fever or chills.

• Goldenrod: a tall plant with bright yellow flowers. A poultice of this is terrific for healing wounds.

• Honey: a sweet, golden liquid created by bees. Difficult to obtain without getting stung, but great for soothing infections or the throats of cats who have inhaled smoke.

• Horsetail: a tall plant with bristly stems that grows in marshy areas. The leaves can be used to treat infected wounds. It's usually chewed up and applied as a poultice.

• Juniper Berries: a bush with spiky dark green leaves and purple berries. The berries soothe bellyaches and help cats who are having trouble breathing.

• Lavender: a small purple flowering plant. Cures fever.

• Marigold: a bright orange or yellow flower that grows low to the ground. The petals or leaves can be chewed up into a pulp and applied as a poultice to wounds to stop infection.

• Mouse Bile: a bad-smelling liquid that is the only remedy for ticks. Dab a little moss soaked in bile on a tick and it will fall right off. Wash paws thoroughly in running water afterward.

• Poppy Seed: small black seeds shaken from a dried poppy flower, these are fed to cats to help them sleep. Soothes cats suffering from shock and distress. Not recommended for nursing queens.

• Stinging Nettle: the spiny green seeds can be administered to a cat who's swallowed poison, while the leaves can be applied to a wound to bring down swelling.

• Tansy: a strong-smelling plant with round yellow flowers. Good for curing coughs, but must be eaten in small doses.

• Thyme: this herb can be eaten to calm anxiety and frayed nerves.

• Watermint: aleafy plant found in streams or damp earth. Usually chewed into a pulp and then fed to a cat suffering bellyache.

• Wild Garlic: rolling in a patch of wild garlic can help prevent infection, especially for dangerous wounds like rat bites.

• Yarrow: a flowering plant whose leaves can be made into a poultice and applied to wounds or scratches to expel poison.

Notice:
Deathberries: red berries that can be fatally poisonous to kits and elders. They are NOT a medicine. Known to Twolegs as yew berries. Some medicine cats use this in rare cases to end a patient's life so it doesn't suffer. Many cats refuse this treatment though, believing that the choice of choosing when the patient dies is in StarClan's paws only.

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Warriors Glossary

Crow-food: rotting food

Fox dung: an insult; stronger offense then mouse-brain

Fresh kill: recently killed prey

Gatherings: a meeting that the Clans hold in peace every moon

Greencough: a severe chest infection, which can be fatal in elders and young kits

Greenleaf: summer

Halfbridge: a dock

Housefolk: a house cat's word for its human

Kittypet: a house cat

Leaf-bare: winter

Leaf-fall: fall/autumn

Loner: cat that lives peacefully on its own in one place but doesn't its territory

Monster: usually refers to human machines such as cars and bulldozers

Moonhigh: the time of night when the moon is highest; often midnight

Mouse-brained: not very smart

Mouse dung: and insult; stronger than mouse-brain, but less offensive then fox dung

Newleaf: spring

One Moon: one month (half moon = two weeks; quarter moon = one week)

Rogue: a potentially hostile cat who lives outside the Clans and never spends too long in one place

Sharing Tongues: term used to describe cats grooming each other

Silverpelt: the milky way

Sunhigh: noon

Thunderpath: a road

Tree-eater: bulldozer

Twoleg nest: a human house

Twolegplace: a human town

Twoleg: the Clans' word for humans

Whitecough: mild chest infection

*NOTE* this was taken from www.warriorcats.com. I didn't include the words that were introduced in the second and third series; if you notice any words from the first book set that I did not include, please tell me.