#Rats squirrels rabbits hares trout... dangerous but rewarding quarries.

[bonefall]

sadly I don’t think the roasted grandpaw dish would work, since in canon the skyclan cats expressed shock/horror at the idea of eating rats. to them rats are like foxes or badgers. dangerous, keep them away from skyclan territory, and don’t eat them

To be fair I'm probably going to end up doing away with the way the Clans are weird about rats.

Carrionplace rats are gross specifically because they eat stinky human garbage, but why exactly do the Clans (it's not just skyclan that acts like this) see a huge mouse as being disgusting? When it's been eating all-natural bugs and fruits and nuts its whole life?

It's the Erin's human bias creeping in and nothing more. Rat yummy. Big fat rat yummier.

If anything rats should be seen as the boss version of mice. Bigger, stronger, smarter, much more rewarding but also a bigger risk to take on because they can fight back.