Post by maxx on Jan 16, 2012 2:43:14 GMT -5
This useful guide can be used a reference for training your apprentice, or just day-to-day role play. If you have any new hunting techniques or suggestions, please feel free to PM me.
ps. This hunting guide was found here!
Know your Clan. If you are a ShadowClan cat, you will be hunting by night in pine filled forests and dumps and you must know how to creep silently through the forest. Hunting in WindClan will require speed and they hunt in wide open spaces. RiverClan cats need quick reflexes and a love for water, because most of their hunting will be done in or around water, and ThunderClan will usually hunt in forests with lots of undergrowth. They need patience, determination, and a very light step to catch anything.
Know what you're going to catch.
- ShadowClan: Frogs, lizards, snakes
- WindClan: Rabbits, mice, birds
- RiverClan: Fish, water voles, shrews
- ThunderClan: Voles, shrews, birds, mice, squirrels, rabbit
ShadowClan cats will slip along the shadows and throw their weight forward and sneak down-wind on their prey. RiverClan cats will wait by the riverside, keeping their shadows away from the water until a fish swims by and then lash out with one paw to flip it onto the bank and bite it. WindClan cats will use bursts of amazing speed to tackle down their prey. ThunderClan cats will creep low against the ground and stalk their prey quietly using a variety of different leaps and blocks to catch their prey.
Give thanks to StarClan for your prey's life and how it will feed your clan, because without it you and your clan could be starving to death. Never kill for pleasure; only kill to feed.
Stalking.
oo1. Taste the air. If the air is going in the wrong direction (blowing towards the prey), the prey could smell you.
oo2. Get in a hunter's crouch. Make sure your tail is not dragging, and not wiggling in the air. Keep it low (but not touching the ground) and pointed like a stick.
oo3. Slowly creep forward. Look out for any twigs, leaves, or anything that could give you away. Make sure every paw step is as lightly as possible. NO NOISE!!!!! That is very important. Make a noise and you will scare away any close prey.
oo4. Pounce on the prey; slowly gather strength in hind legs and push forward. Strong hind legs are a very important tool for great pounces. Also, be sure to aim first so you don't miss the prey completely!
oo5. Deliver the killing bite. Bite it quickly but firmly on the neck or spine. Then you've caught your own prey.
Tips.
- Try shifting your weight to your hind legs as not to be heard.
- Stay so that the wind blows in your direction, known as down wind. It makes it easier to hunt if your prey doesn't know you are there.
- Try and hide your scent with things in the surroundings of your territory. ShadowClan may use ferns or bushes that grow in the marshes. ThunderClan may use tree bark or low bushes and plants. RiverClan doesn't need to because fish won't smell you. But because WindClan is out in the open, this style of hunting may be used more they may want to rub in dirt first and stay downwind.
- Make sure you know exactly where the prey is. If your not totally sure you could miss when you pounce and scare the prey away.
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