#nursery cat

[seabeck]

A female orange cat. When I stopped petting her she grabbed my hand.

[warriorcatsauclan]

Nursery Cat Position

Posting this to go with my AlderSky AU, but honestly is can be use for any AU story-line and will probably use it in other stories, but this Au is where it originates. If you want to add this rank into you own Warrior Cats AU stories, go for it! Hope you like it and hope this new rank inspires more warrior cat stories! Anyway, here we go!

A Nursery Cat is a Clan cat who stays in the nursery and assists queens and kits in various ways, whether it is watching kits, helping with delivery and labor, maintaining the nursery, helping mothers raise their kits, and watching over the health and welfare of the mothers and their kits. They will have some medicine training, mainly in herbs that are used to assist and treat queens and kits. They are also trained in some fighting techniques, mainly for defending the nursery and the cats in there. They can also hunt and will participate in hunting patrols.

Nursery Cats can begin training at 6 moons, but it is also not uncommon for cats who were previously warriors, queens or even Medicine Cats to exchange their previous lives to become Nursery Cats. 

Nursery Cats can be of any gender, tom or she-cat. Nursery Cats are allowed to have mates and kits of their own.  

Tasks Include:

Assisting expecting queens, when they are giving birth, and when they are nursing.

Maintaining the nursery.

Having knowledge of herbs and treatments to help queens and kits.

Helping raise the Clan’s kits.

Look over the welfare of the queens and kits.

[sparklijam]

My gosh Rocket is such an aesthetically photogenic kitty~

[jmmallory]

Cats *sigh*. Happy Caturday

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kitties

[sporeclan]

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Biggest emotional roller coaster of a moon yet </3

Bonus author's notes;

[kidcore-nostalgia]

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

So much talent: musical animals through time.

[ciitrinitas]

from wada’s recent artbook, edited to have transparent backgrounds because i find it very soothing to do. commit as many crimes with them as you will.

[julykings]

bringing my bf coffee at work has its perks…! i got cucumbers, peppers, and tomatoes for the kitchen, a new pothos for my bedroom, and a sunflower and peperomia for the print lab 💕🌿

[enchantedbook]

'Lost your Mittens' by Charles H. Sylvester, 1909

[warriorcatsauclan]

AlderSky Au Part 2

Echosong begins training Alderpaw in earnest. She is both impressed by the young tom’s talent, but also worried as she can see the stress of dealing with the sickness lingering in him. She also tries to get him to distance himself from Reedkit, Finkit and Dewkit because the kits tend to look at him for fatherly advice and affection when they should be bonding with Sandynose and also because Medicine Cats are not suppose to have kits.

This however, begins to rub Alderpaw the wrong way. He begins to wonder 1) why are Medicine Cats forbidden from having mates or kits and 2) once again, if this is really the right path for him. He finds himself drawn more and more back to the nursery, even if it is to do something as simply as change the queen’s bedding. Echosong begins to notice this as well.

 It all comes to ahead when Reedkit, Finkit and Dewkit sneak into Alderpaw’s nest one night when Sandynose is sleeping in the nursery with them. They express to Alderpaw that they miss him and are uncomfortable around Sandynose because they do not know him or recognize him as their father, even telling Alderpaw that he is their father, not Sandynose.

Alderpaw is touched by this. He never once considered himself a father to the kits, but he cannot deny that he loves them as if they were his own. But he also knows that Sandynose deserves to has somekind of relationship with them as well.

He tells the kits that he loves them - he will always love them, but that Sandynose loves them too, and all he wants is the chance to get to know them. Dewkit asks how can Sandynose love them if he does not even know them? Alderpaw explains that a parent’s love is so strong that they will love their kits even before they meet them. Sandynose has loved them before they were even born, and is was that love that encouraged him to continue looking for them.

Alderpaw tells the kits that he will always love them, but they should give Sandynose a chance, because there is nothing wrong with having more love in their lives.

The kits think about it and agree, but they do ask Alderpaw to walk them back to the nursery, which Alderpaw happily obliges.

The next morning, Alderpaw is thinking about the conversation with the kits. He knows the work of a Medicine Cat is important, especially now with Fidgetpaw missing, but he can feel his heart pulling him in another direction.

He goes to talk to Needlestorm about this. Needlestorm listens to him and asks him a question: where does he find himself feeling the most calm and at peace? Alderpaw does not have to think long before he says the nursery helping the queens and their kits. Needlestorm says than that might be where he is meant to be. Alderpaw then says that toms are not usually in the nursery. Needlestorm then snort, waving her tail around asking what part of the last few moons has been “normal”? She was born in ShadowClan, he ThunderClan, and now they are both in SkyClan, far from their birth Clans guiding SkyClan to the lake. SkyClan is clearly unique, from their names, to their history, to their rules, but it works for them. And besides, she adds, why is it a bad thing to have a tom who is knowledgeable about queen and kit health? Why would it be a bad thing to have a cat who stays in the nursery a lot helping with queen and kit care?

This takes Alderpaw back for a minute, remembering something. He suddenly asks Needlestorm if she has even heard of the ThunderClan cat Daisy? Needlestorm admits she has heard her name, but did not think much of her. Alderpaw explains that Daisy stays in the nursery full-time, staying to help queens through birth and kit care. There are generations of ThunderClan cats who’s earliest memories include Daisy, including his.

This gets Needlestorm’s attention. She says it sounds like what Alderpaw was doing before Fidgetpaw went missing. Alderpaw nods. Needlestorm then suggests that maybe he should talk to Leafstar and Echosong about making it an official position within the Clan. This surprises Alderpaw, who reiterates that he is a tom, but Needlestorm rebukes this, pointing out that if he was a she-cat, no one would bat an eye at him wanting to be in the nursery and care for kits, so why should it be any different because he is a tom? He can still learn about kit care and health, he can help raise them, why should he not be allowed to have a position like this?

Alderpaw thinks for a moment. He admits that his friend has a point, and that he is not really happy as a Medicine Cat Apprentice. Needlestorm tells him to talk to Leafstar and Echosong, and that she can with him if he wants. Alderpaw says yes.

Little do they know that Leafstar and Echosong are already talking about something.

Echosong brings up her concerns about Alderpaw’s stress levels to Leafstar, who has also noticed. While Alderpaw does a good job at not snapping any any cat, it is clear from just looking at him (un-groomed fur, jumpy attitude, loss of appetite) that the apprentice is close to the edge, which is concerning form both a well-being and logistic stand point. No one wants a young cat to die from stress and also Alderpaw and Needlestorm are their only connections and guides to the lake territories and they cannot afford to lose either of them.

This when Alderpaw and Needlestorm asks to speak with them. Both she-cats asks what they can do for them. Alderpaw is nervous as he admits to Echosong he does not think he is meant to be a Medicine Cat. Both she-cats blink and Alderpaw begins to stumble over himself trying to explain. Echosong silences him before he can begin to spiral. She tells him that while he has talent to be a Medicine Cat, she respects his choice to choose a different path.  Leafstar agrees with this and asks if this means Alderpaw wishes to train as a warrior?

Alderpaw says no and he and Needlestorm tell them about how he feels more drawn to the nursery than anything, how he loves caring for kits and helping the queens and about Daisy in ThunderClan and what she does. He and Needlestorm then propose a new Clan position, one where a cat is trained to learn how to care for queens and kits. Whether that means health, watching kits so their mothers can take a break, maintaining the nursery or anything else. He also says that his Medicine training does not have to go to wast, as kits get sick a lot and he will know what herbs to use to help them. Both Leafstar and Echosong agree that this is a good idea.

Alderpaw is taken aback at how quickly they agree, but is happy. He then nervously asks what this new position would be called? Leafstar purrs that she will think of something.

Later, when SkyClan arrives at the twolegplace and Leafstar makes Plumwillow’s and Pebbleshine’s kits apprentices, she also preforms a new ceremony for Alderpaw. It goes similarly to a warrior’s ceremony, only instead of asking him to protect his Clan, it is asking him to protect and care for the kits of SkyClan. Alderpaw affirms this and Leafstar renames him Alderheart and announces him as SkyClan’s first Nursery Cat. She explains to the Clan what this means. The whole Clan loves this new position. Needlestorm asks Leafstar if Nursery Cats are allowed to have mates and kits and Leafstar confirms that they are. Both Needlestorm and Alderheart are happy about this.

SkyClan soon sets off again to look for the lake...

[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).

Dog people might enjoy my waggish collection of vintage dogs.

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[once-a-kittypet]

Figured this would happen eventually, but there were some designs I felt like I *really* needed to update/fix a few things on!

Spottedleaf I realized I forgot the spot on her eye, whoops-

While drawing Willowpelt I knew that she was definitely way too dark to be considered "pale gray" so I decided to adjust her colors and make her lighter to more accurately portray how she looks in canon but I'm not sure if I like it more than her original design? Either way, here's a more canon design for Willowpelt if anyone prefers this over the original

And finally Yellowfang who funnily enough... I forgot to make her teeth yellow... truly my biggest shame as a Warrior Cats fan... anyways- I fixed it lol I'll probably have more of these in the future as time goes on since there are *so* many characters in this darn series I'm bound to forget something else or go back on a design choice I made eventually plus there are some cats from my earlier batches that I want to redraw completely (mostly Henry because he just looks WAY too wonky for me to leave as is, Rusty maybe, and I think I want to make some minor adjustments to Bluestar's anatomy?)

[pinest4r]

hi, hi! can I request for Blackstar if u didn't do him yet?

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