Hey everyone! The last contest was really hard to pick winners for...All of the ideas were so creative. It really made me happy to read them all! I hope that there will be just as many ideas this time around!
THE WINNERS
Fourth place goes to Redwolf with the disease called Soft Bone!
Soft Bone starts when a RiverClan cat drinks from a new water pond up a little north in RiverClan territory. A few hours or so after drinking it, the cats body starts to itch. The itch increases over the next few days. Whenever a cat falls, usually a week or so after drinking, they often get fractures and sprains. It is hard not to fall as the bones become unstable. It was more of a problem back in older days when they didn't know the cause, but now it is one of the first things RiverClan apprentices learn. It can be treated with yarrow, to make the cats expel it, but only if used in the first two days of drinking.
Take home a giant stuffed bone! Dinosaur size!
Third place goes to xxShadowheartxx with the disease called Hacking Cough!
Hacking cough starts out by looking about the same as whitecough, but it's much worse. The infected cat will soon start coughing, and having a dizzy spell now and then. The infected cat will start to have trouble breathing, fever will break out, and the coughing will only get worse. Soon after, the cat will die. Treatment is a combination of: Tansy, Catmint, and feverfew, in just the right amounts. Too little, and the cats don't get better. Too much, and the cat overdoses on the herbs. Although, cats who get it once almost always get it again and again. Cause is never really determined, but it's more common among clans the live in wooded areas.
Take home a stuffed white rabbit!
Second place is given to HazelCrowe with Poison Water!
A few moons ago a strange northeastern wind blew across the lake, bringing with it an unusually heavy storm. Unknown to the cats, north-east from the lake lay a pool of toxic waste from a condemned laboratory. Soon strange things began to happen to any cats that drank from the lake or still bodies of water. They became sick, their bellies would bloat and they would get a terrible case of nausea. The worse cases would die from internal bleeding, while the strongest cats would be almost completely unaffected. Some warriors even suffer from seizures. This sickness affected RiverClan the most, since they ate the fish from the lake that were infected as well. WindClan seemed to be the less affected. The medicine cat's found out that yarrow and nettle leaves help get rid of the belly aches when the cats suffer from a lesser case of the illness, while Raspberry leaves were eaten to stop internal bleeding. Cats didn't get the sickness when they drank from running water, like streams and rivers, but when they drank from the lake or small pools they would contract the illness. By the next season Poison Water passed.
Have a Whitepaw plushie!
And, finally, first place is AAA with Ground Fever!
Ground Fever is very contagious. This illness is most commonly found in dense marshy areas. Ground Fever is undetectable, for the illness is found in the marshy waters. When cats drink or walk in marshy waters, sometimes the water has a special sort of bacteria. This bacteria creates Ground Fever. When a cat gets Ground Fever, the only sign in the midst of three days is early fatigue. From the forth day to the seventh day, the cat starts losing it's hair, usually around the tail. This is the only time you can treat Ground Fever. For the next two weeks after that, the cat will start wheezing and coughing. They will throw up constantly and continue slowly losing hair. After a month of that, the cat will die, completely hairless. It's tail will fall off the day of it's death. The only possible way for Ground Fever to be treated is with a sample of the infected marshy water along with yarrow and deathberries. The yarrow makes them throw up the infected water in their stomachs while the water hasn't settled. The deathberries must be mixed in with the marshy water and given to the patient exactly five days after drinking the water. The deathberries will destroy the infection in the water and kill itself so it will just be water for the patient to drink. You must never give the patient poppy seeds or catmint at any stage in this illness or they will immediately die.
Have a Stormfur plush!
CONTEST
This time, you will all be making a rouge. You will need to include a name and an appearence for your rouge. Keep them rouge names, please, not kitty-pet names!
THE RULES
1. Only two rouges per person.
2. Include both a name and an appearence for each cat submitted.
3. Try not to send in an already taken name.
4. Use rouge names; such as Scratch or Oak, not Gary or Marvin.
EXAMPLE
Name: Thorn
Appearence: A lanky, long-furred ginger tom. He has dark orange socks on all four paws; the ones on his front feet come up to his ankles, the one on the back legs come up to his knees. A very long tail that has been broken and healed crooked. Light blue eyes.
HAVE FUN EVERYONE!
