Patrols are organised groups, usually consisting of three or more warriors and often their apprentices, monitoring a specific area or to carry out a specific task, such as hunting or scouting.
| Border Patrol |
All Clans are expected to check and mark their boundaries daily, challenging all trespassers, as decreed by the Warrior Code. This is done by border patrols.
Usually, Clans patrol their borders two times a day: at dawn and at sunset, unless more are needed due to danger or threats such as rogues, foxes, or badgers.
The Clan deputy assigns warriors to lead border patrols, and the patrol leaders choose which cats they wish to take with them. Upon returning to the camp, the patrol leaders report to the Clan deputy, who, in turn, reports to the Clan leader.
| Hunting Patrol |
Hunting patrols are groups of cats who hunt for prey to bring back to the camp for their Clan to eat.
Several hunting parties are organised each day. Deputies ensure that hunting patrols have been organised and are out and about in order for the Clan to eat, but these patrols are not always appointed by the deputy, and do not take place at a specific time; any warrior can go on a hunting patrol at any time of the day, or even hunt by themselves.
Cats are not allowed to eat while on a hunting patrol (unlike those who are on a border patrol).
| Search Patrol |
Warriors can be assigned the task to find a missing cat (for instance, a kit or apprentice who wandered away from the camp, like Squirrelpaw in Midnight or Berrykit in Sunset) or to look for information (such as searching for Sol in Sunrise).
| Message Patrol |
If a message or question to another Clan is too urgent to wait until the next Gathering, a party can be appointed to bring it to the other Clan's leader.
Usually only a few warriors are sent, so they would not be mistaken for a raiding party.
They wait at the border until a border patrol from the rival Clan comes to escort them to the camp to speak with their leader.
| Water Patrol |
Water patrols are made up of warriors who carry water to the cats staying in the camp (such as queens and elders) during a drought, when the water needs to be fetched from a large distance away.
They use bundles of moss to carry it. The concept appeared in Rising Storm and also in The Fourth Apprentice.
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