Diseases and Ailments

Aching joints - basically arthritis in cats. Caused by age or damp weather. Symptoms include pain and stiffness.

Blackcough - a fatal sickness that spells certain death for any cat who catches it. Symptoms are unknown, but the "black" might be blood.

Bleeding - When injured cats lose blood quickly, for example, during a battle.

Chill- a very mild ailment usually caused by very cold weather or falling into icy water. Much like whitecough, but with cold chills.

Cough - a sickness that is like a human cold. Just coughs and sneezes; can be dangerous to kits or young cats.

Cracked pads - a painful ailment usually seen in elderly cats. The pawpads crack from cold or dryness, and if untreated can lead to infection. Symptoms include swelling of the paws and pain.

Greencough - a sickness similar to pneumonia that is often rampant among the Clans in leaf-bare. Symptoms include wheezing, pus excreted from the eyes, fever, and green phlegm streaming from the nose and mouth.

Whitecough- a mild sickness like a cold. More common than greencough, but can become greencough or even the fatal blackcough. Symptoms include sneezing and white phlem streaming from the nose, and a slightly high temperature. This is similar to kittencough, which is the least harmful of all coughs and is mostly caught by kits.