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then depart to live alone A mother cat has a powerful
love of her kittens and will die to protect them But
even for her, once a kitten grows up and moves on, that
consuming love fades and is replaced by a lower level
of affection
The mother trains and teaches her kittens how
to hunt, where to hide, and all about her habitat,
so the kittens reach adulthood with a near perfect
understanding of the area around their home and the
creatures and wildlife that populate it
Life Cycle
The age of sexual maturity varies from cat to cat, and
can range from 4–10 months Most cats are considered
to have reached adolescence by the age of 5–6 months
A cat’s pregnancy lasts 64–67 days, at which time
she gives birth to a litter of kittens The young cats
are born blind, deaf, and helpless At about two weeks,
their eyes and ears open, and the kittens begin to react
to their siblings and others Usually, the kittens are
weaned around the age of six weeks, though they still
stay with their mother At 12 weeks, though they are
not fully grown, they are fully socialized and able to
leave their mother
A Dreamlands cat often mates with normal cats, and
any kittens it produces are normal kittens, though the
kittens, as with all cats, may later become Dreamlands
cats themselves
Society
As normally solitary and often capricious hunters, cats
don’t really have a society in the humanoid sense of
the word Cats are able to live in large groups, but do
not cooperatively hunt or organize With their greater
intelligence, Dreamlands cats can work together
to go to war, gather for raids, and hold celebrations
Dreamlands cats have been known to form a militia of
sorts, including having military ranks, to proactively
defend themselves as a race An example of this is when the Dreamlands cats’ militia preempted an attack
by the zoogs Dreamlands cats can very effectively fight in a coordinated fashion as demonstrated against moonbeasts
The cat vocal apparatus is not built very well to speak humanoid languages However, cats are perfectly capable of understanding these languages, and they can learn any of the languages spoken in their home area Other people must learn the cat language to communicate with their fickle feline companions
Fortunately, the cat language is fairly easy to learn In fact, most people who own a cat are probably halfway there already A one-week association with a specific cat allows a character to understand that specific cat without needing to learn the Cat language This does not allow them to understand other cats unless they spend a week with those cats as well The character can spend one week with multiple cats and understand them all after that week
When a cat speaks, it meows or caterwauls, but when humanoids speak to cats, they speak in their normal tongues It is quite a different situation from most communication, in which both parties must speak the same tongue to get anything done
Communicating with cats is a combination of learning what some of their meows and whines mean and also understanding patterns of behavior A cat understands what party members are saying, and soon enough those party members usually learn how to talk with the cat
Cats do not have any sort of written language, but a Dreamlands cat is able to learn how to read or even write, though its lack of thumbs does handicap it somewhat in this regard
Otherworld Cats
Many other worlds have cat-like organisms of their own This is so common that many researchers theorize