Whiteclaw's Tale - Chapter 2

Whitekit could see the whole territory from Outlook rock. "What do you see?" asked Cattail. "I see, the forest and an eagle fishing." Cattail nodded, "When you become an apprentice you will be taught how to focus your senses to find and observe our territory and the land surrounding it. I am going to bring you up here every single day and you will see you can actually improve and you can focus your skills on the things around you every day." Whitekit nodded appreciatively. They turned around and padded back to camp. 

As the moons went by.

Whitekit became an impressive kit. Cattail beckoned with her tail for him to follow like normal and then she said, "Today you are going to tell me what you improved on and what you still need to work on." Whitekit nodded and when the sun first started to rise over the trees, Cattail said "We need to go back to the camp, Cinderstar said he was going to be calling a clan meeting." Whitekit nodded and plunged through the bushes towards the camp. "Whitekit! Where have you been going each morning you look like you have been pulled through the bushes. You know your not supposed to be out of the camp until you are an apprentice." Dawnpetal snapped. "You need to be cleaned up," she said. "Why?" snorted Whitekit. "Because Cinderstar just called a clan meeting." she retorted, "that's why." Whitekit shuffled his feet while his mother tried to free his pelt from the twigs." When she heard Cinderstar's calling and she started herding the kittens out of the nursery. "Today our 3 kittens are ready to become apprentices of Nightclan." Whitekit looked at the 3 cats standing next to Cinderstar and he knew that those 3 cats would be their mentors. The 3 cats that were standing beside Cinderstar were Rosesweep, Darkfinch, and Ashear. "Rosesweep, you will be mentor to Brownpaw teach him everything you know and with time he will have you incredible hunting skills. Ashear, you will mentor Blackpaw, he will have your observation skills by the time he is a warrior. Darkfinch," he said turning to the last warrior in line. "You are a new warrior and clan deputy but you have shown great skill here and I know yo will pass on all of those skills to Whitepaw." "Whitepaw, Blackpaw Brownpaw, Whitepaw, Blackpaw, Brownpaw!" The clan cheered the 3 new apprentices' names as the sun set into the trees. "Find a nest Whitepaw," ordered Darkfinch and the other apprentices nodded. "We will see the territory tomorrow." 

Whiteclaw's Tale - Chapter 1

"Whitekit play nicely with your brothers Blackkit, and Brownkit." said Whitekit's mother, Dawnpetal. "I'll be an apprentice soon and then you won't be able to boss me around." squeaked Whitekit. "You won't be an apprentice for another 4 moons." said Dawnpetal gently. "That is the warrior code, no kit can be apprenticed before 6 moons old." Whitekit snorted and shook his head, impatiently. He turned and padded towards the center of the camp where he saw his father Rushclaw, leading the hunting patrol out of the camp. "Father, Father, can I join you?" Whitekit called. His father looked amused and said, "When you're an apprentice I promise I will take you hunting." He said. Whitekit turned around and padded back to the nursery. Dawnpetal, turned and scooped him into the nest, to join his siblings. Dawnpetal looked at them and then she curled up in the nest and told them to go to sleep. "I will wake you when the patrol gets back with some food. You are old enough to have some of the food from the fresh kill pile now." she said. "No Milk?" The kittens looked at her in disbelief. "Yes Brownkit, the milk is drying, you can each take some mice from the fresh kill pile, no birds unless I pluck the feathers." she reminded them. The kittens nodded. Instead of curling up in the nest Whitekit turned and with his brotheres following behind him they padded back into the camp. "Brownkit and Blackkit, always think they are better than every other cat." muttered Whitekit to himself. "Hey Whitekit," called Darkpaw and Hollypaw the only two clan apprentices. Whitekit nodded in their direction. "Where are Brownkit and Blackkit?" asked Hollypaw. Whitekit nodded in the direction of the elders den, "They always like listening to Hawkeye's stories." he said. Hollypaw gave her thanks and padded away. "Do you want me to take you to outlook ledge?" asked Darkpaw. "That's out of camp though, I am not allowed out until I am an apprentice though." Darkpaw considered. "They won't know then, besides you are the oldest of your siblings and the keenest to learn. No warrior can object." Whitekit nodded and followed Darkpaw. "Watch for the paw holds," called Darkpaw as he gave Whitekit a boost up the rock. "Darkpaw! What are you doing out here and with a kit under 6 moons old." scolded Cattail the clan deputy. "Whitekit wanted to see outlook ledge, so I agreed to take him." said Darkpaw defiantly. "You agreed to take a kit out of the camp?" Darkpaw nodded. "That was very irresponsible," she said. "Whitekit is the oldest kit though. He is oldest the keenest to learn new skills, I figured that any warrior would want there to be new warriors in the clan. To have warriors then the kits must learn skills." he argued. Cattail considered before nodding. "Fine, I will take him to Outlook ledge as I am the clan deputy, you will go back to camp and you will go out training with Darkenberry." She said before beckoning with her tail for Whitekit to follow. 

Cat Fact #17 and #18

April 15th, 2015 

Cats have been around for a long time. The oldest breed of cat is the Egyptian Mau. The Egyptian mau is a breed of cat that has been around the longest. The word mau actually means cat in Egyptian. So the Egyptian Mau is the Egyptian Cat.