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** It's revealed in ''Bluestar's Prophecy'' she had been stalking him. Someone might have mentioned his name.

** In ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', Bluestar meets Rusty/Firepaw/Fireheart/Firestar's father, Jake. He probably mentioned the name at some point.

** I think this is meant to be [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]. Cats are, as mentioned, extremely territorial. Feral cats are known to form small family groups in real life, which is reflected in the Clans, but they see other cats as, first and foremost, competition. Humans don't share the same instinctive territory thing, so while it makes sense to ''us'' to form a big, unified group, it doesn't so much to the cats because that clashes with their basic instincts. How well the authors pulled this off is, obviously, up for debate, but that's my take on it.

*** The structure of a real feral colony is nothing like that of the clans. If genuine feral behavior had anything to do with how they organized their territories, I imagine that borders would be unstable, leaders would have to fight their way to the top, elders and queens would not be looked after, cats would probably live separately...like Bloodclan, basically. The forest clans organize more like tribal ''human'' societies and the characters themselves act human.

** It's just myths. They weren't actually descended from those cats, but it makes for cool stories for elders to tell kits.

** Yeah, but the question remains: how do the Clan cats even know about Lions and Tigers? The first series supposedly takes place in England, other series seem to be either in North America or England. Leopards, tigers, and lions are all either found in Asia of Africa. The books indicate that the clan cats are not very worldly: they are mostly concerned with their immediate environment. So how could they know about Old World big cats that they never encountered, and not know what a cougar or even a ''beaver'' is?

*** Plot Induced Stupidity, perhaps? I don't know about the cougars and beavers, but since domestic cats are believed to have originated in Egypt, I guess that their ancestors could've seen the lions and leopards there and told their descendants about them...I don't know how to explain the tigers, though, unless the Clans were in India at some point.

** Let's pretend it's translated from Catspeak to english. The cats describe a large spotted/striped/plain cat in their own language - Catspeak - to english. The cats probably thought they had made these things up in their own minds, but they didn't know that there actually is something that fits that description. It's translated from "Meow big-cat-with-spots Meow" to "Leopard", because that is a term we would understand better.

** The family tree's posted on the web have been said by the authors to be completly wrong.

** Vicky said she didn't realize it until it was too late. So, don't [[MST3K Mantra|focus on it much.]]

** Kittypets do understand what Twolegs say, to an extent. Princess mentioned she understand what her owners speak, and Daisy demonstrated deeper understanding of Twolegs' actions. Figuring out how Twolegs call their cats seem an easy task in comparison.

*** I feel that the OP's main question was: 'why do cats refer to one another by whatever they are named by twolegs?' which is reasonable enough. I honestly don't know. Perhaps she-cat kittypets explain to their kits that they may change their name whenever they change housefolk. Who knows?

** Well, [[Word of God]] did say he was in [[Star Clan]] until Bluestar showed up and then chased him to the Dark Forest.

* In ''Bluestar's Prophecy'', Tigerkit/paw/claw/star is shown as an [[Obviously Evil|ambitious and blood thirsty cat, with Goosefeather dropping]] [[Anvilicious|heavy hints]] about his future, but in the OS, Bluestar completely trusts him, [[Sanity Slippage|even going gradually insane]] as a result of his betrayal. What?

* So, just what sorts of wounds -can- the Starclan heal?

** I'm not sure. I think it depends on the situation. For example, they may have the power to heal a fatal wound in a non-leader cat, but simply choose not to. Or it could be that they can't heal cats that aren't leaders. Or perhaps StarClan can't heal anything by choice. It might be that once leaders have their nine lives, they heal automatically without StarClan actually choosing to heal them. Although, I like the theory that Tigerstar was ''allowed'' to bleed to death nine times because his warrior ancestors had realized that he should not be permitted to continue living.

** Chalk it up to inconsistent writing. The Erins make a lot of mistakes like that, such as the one with Yellowfang apparently forgetting she had told Jayfeather about the Dark Forest rising.