Common animals of prey that roam the territory are thrushes, toads, frogs, mice, squirrels, and lizards. By the marshes, frogs and thrushes are seen most often. The toads and frogs are easy prey to find and catch because of their noisiness: their loud croaks and heavy foot-steps.
Due to their lack of speed on land, both make for good animals for apprentices to learn to hunt on so long as they keep away from the water, but out of the two, frogs are undoubtedly faster. Thrushes are a lot harder to catch and only the best hunters of the clan can catch them often, despite how common they are.
In the forests roam more squirrels, mice, and some more thrushes. The squirrels are typically plump enough that they can't run super quickly, and because of the clan's experience in climbing trees, they're very easy to track and hunt. On the other hand. scrawny mice are incredibly hard to catch because of all the tree roots floating around. They're far swifter than ordinary forest-mice! Finally, thrushes live up in the trees, and again, they are hard critters to hunt.
Uncommon prey is bird eggs, chipmunks, ravens, and fresh-water fish. Bird eggs can be found in any section of the forest, and sometimes even the swamp, but they only pop up during late newleaf and early greenleaf. They're very hard to reach because of the height that parent birds nest!
Next, chipmunks are small morsels of prey but they are, unfortunately, very delicious and highly addictive for the cats in the clan... They're also found in the forests but hardly ever venture out of their little trunk-burrows, and in that aspect, they and the cats have something in common with each other. The best way to hunt them is by sticking your snout into the small holes they home in and biting madly. If they're lucky, a cat will catch one!
Ravens, much like thrushes, are incredibly hard to catch, but these little birds are even harder to find. Due to their dark feathers, they blend in seamlessly against the shadowy backdrop of the forest and their only give-aways are their obnoxious crows. On top of that, they're very swift and vigilant. How annoying!
Finally, in a fresh-water stream only a little bit away from the marshes and camp live plenty of fish. Trouts, bass, and salmon all live in the rushing stream, making for a good spot to hunt. But because cats aren't yet equipped to hunt in the water, they find it awfully hard to track the fish down because their shadows give them away immediately. Hunting is a tricky business, but hunting fish is so much harder than the professionals make it look!
Next, common dangers around the territory include wandering two-legs, drowning, marshes that have turned into quicksand pits, and falling from trees. While two-legs aren't always an immediate threat, a couple of two-leg kits stumble into the forest every so often, giggling and making a mess of things. But the cats aren't the only ones annoyed...
Drowning is a surprisingly common occurrence: while swimming, a cat falls into the water and they don't come out. Out of all the dangers, this is by far the most common, because it can happen quickly and suddenly. Many cats avoid the fresh-water streams that run by the marshes for that very reason because at least the marsh water isn't deep enough to drown in.
Speaking of marsh water, quicksand forms more often than you'd think when sand, soil, and gluey-water mix together, creating a deadly trap. Though it isn't as common as the other two, it's a very real danger for younger cats such as apprentices, and they pop up randomly around the marshes.
In the forest, the most common danger is falling from trees, and sometimes those trees can be the camp tree-dens. It doesn't happen too often but just often enough to be noted as such, and when it does happen, it calls for plenty of mourning.
Littered about the territory are some rarer predators and dangers, such as owls, aggressive rogues, stray dogs, and wolves. The owls live high atop the trees and they are only truly a danger toward kits and small apprentices, but they are menacing in the way they scare away prey, and so they can be more of a nuisance than a danger at times.
Aggressive, catty rogues pass through often: cats who think they're much too good to join a colony of other cats below their level, but still use their territory to their advantage. Though they're uncommon, they're not that big of a deal and a couple of patrols can send them on their ways in an instant.
Stray dogs are far more dangerous. They usually come in groups of one or two and, even then, they cause significant damage. When they stumble into the territory, the clan cats tend to avoid them until they take their leave, and only if they've been hanging around for a little too long do they intervene. Many a cat have come back home from patrols covered in dog slobber and wounds, and some cats have had worse fates than even that.
Finally, wolves pose the biggest threat for the clan, aside from natural dangers, of course. They are constantly lurking and waiting at the outskirts of the whistling forest, where those tall, skinny trees turn into snowy pine trees, and where the air thins out to become a mountain-range. The wolves haven't yet dared to come near but they are a constant looming threat and a reason for tension to be in the air. Many cats, especially the elders, have a horror story or two to tell about wolf packs.
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