#BloodClan is full of my special little guys and they will get funny extra powers

[bonefall]

Previous anon, I just want to suggest that if you really want the cats to have cinnamon, you can have SkyClan steal it

Oh absolutely! I can always rely on my SkyClan to steal a particular thing I need-- but I try to limit the things they steal to the sorts of things that are obviously useful.

Like, let's imagine My Boy Reedclaw is breaking into a house for fun. Perfect scenario, too, the humans are gone, he has as much time as he needs and isn't trying to bolt quickly. He even remembered his basket that day!

He still has a limit, he can't fleece the whole house. He can't haul away anything too large or too heavy. He starts rooting through the cubbards and finds their spice rack... with no idea what is in these little plastic containers. He can recognize rosemary, THAT looks like dried parsley, and... is that cloves? He knows THAT is extremely toxic.

What kind of horrors do twolegs do on the daily if they have poisons in their spice supply? And there's dusts and powders of all scents and flavors. Something red, something yellow, he picks up the cinnamon shaker, gives it a lick, and starts gagging. Cinnamon challenge in real time. Ick!

At this point, Reedclaw would have just moved on. But, today he decides he wants to bring this back. He shoves the whole supply into his basket and ducks back out the way he came.

In front of SkyClan, he shakes out his haul.

The rosemary, parsley, they know what to do with that. But why would they even risk using the brown-coughpowder? They notice right away that cloves are part of this haul, any one of these unknown herbs could be a poison.

They could trial-and-error it, but that does risk Clanmates' health and safety. They don't know about the medicinal benefits before they do that. Lastly, it's a limited supply. You never know if the house you're going to break into is going to have cinnamon in the spice rack, if you did find out its uses.

No, SkyClan agrees that stealing from humans is a luxury, not something they should rely on.

There IS a medicine I like to imagine does get stolen from humans though... antibiotics. Kittypets learn quickly that some of the pills fed to them make them stop being sick, and they learn fast that this is something that Clan cats will trade for.

But it's something Clan cats have to be wary of; they can't tell pills apart from each other, and it's always a possibility that a kittypet lies and just exchanges any stolen bottle of vitamins for special food.

I like to think BloodClan actually has this down to a science, knowing exactly where to steal from, organizing raids, and most importantly, having its patrol leaders learn how to read, just a tiny bit