Nursery

Nurseries are dens in the Clan camp where queens and their kits live.

Description
The nursery is usually the most protected den of all dens in a camp, and in case of a raid, warriors and sometimes even elders and queens will do anything to protect it, even sacrificing their life sometimes.

She-cats move to the nursery shortly before giving birth, and stay there until their kits are apprenticed, after which they become warriors again. The care of the kits is shared by all the queens. Some queens decide not to return to warrior duties; instead, they remain in the nursery to help and supervise the other queens and kits and feed kits when their mother cannot, such as Daisy and Goldenflower.

ThunderClan nursery

 * ThunderClan's nursery is protected by a wall of brambles, has a distinctive milky smell, and has deep nests of moss and heather as beddings. There is a huge gap in the bramble wall that two kits can squeeze through as an exit. This nursery has another exit from the camp behind it, next to the dirt place, though it is usually not used. It was the base of some attacks from ShadowClan.

ShadowClan nursery

 * ShadowClan's nursery is in a hollow, shielded by a thorn bush. The scent of milk comes from inside.

WindClan nursery

 * WindClan's nursery is under the gorse thicket that surrounds the camp and is near to the elders' den.

RiverClan nursery

 * RiverClan's nursery is next to a shallow part of the river, where the kits inherit their love of water and learn how to swim quickly. There are feathers woven into the branches of the roof and along the edges are sparkling rocks and shells from the river.


 * In Bluestar's Prophecy, Bluefur notices the RiverClan nests are made of sticks that look oddly uncomfortable. Crookedjaw states if the river were to flood, the nests would float. When Mistyfoot's kits are swept away, they are rescued from the river by Fireheart and Graystripe.

SkyClan nursery

 * SkyClan's nursery is a deep, red-brown cave, protected by a massive red boulder. Inside the cave are a row of small claw marks across larger marks on a column of stone. At first, Firestar thinks that they are kit marks across the queen's scratches, then discovers that they were actually from rats who had driven the original SkyClan from the gorge. After they defeated the rats, Leafdapple scratches over the marks, making them unseen.

ThunderClan nursery

 * ThunderClan's nursery is under the biggest bramble thicket from a tree at the top of the stone hollow. The nests are made out of moss.

ShadowClan nursery

 * ShadowClan's nursery is under low hanging brambles and pine tree branches. It is noted to have the lowest branches and be near the middle of the camp next to the apprentices' den and near to the elders' den so they are the most protected.

RiverClan nursery

 * RiverClan's nursery is made of brambles near a tree beside the stream. Often there is a patch of sunlight just outside.

WindClan nursery

 * WindClan's nursery is a gorse bush against a boulder.

Nursery residents
''Note: Queens are listed in the Allegiances of the respective book unless otherwise stated. An asterisk (*) seen by a kit's name indicates they were apprenticed during the book and therefore left the nursery.''

Firestar's Quest
Note: No Ancient ThunderClan, ShadowClan, WindClan, and RiverClan or Modern ShadowClan queens and kits appeared by name in this book.

Bluestar's Prophecy
Note: No WindClan queens and kits appeared by name in this book.

Yellowfang's Secret
Note: No WindClan queens and kits appeared by name in this book.

Into the Wild
Note: No RiverClan queens or kits appeared in this book.

Fire and Ice
Note: No RiverClan queens or kits appeared in this book.

Midnight
Note: No ShadowClan or WindClan queens and kits appeared by name in this book.

Moonrise
Note: No ShadowClan or WindClan queens and kits appeared by name in this book.

Long Shadows
Note: No WindClan queens and kits appeared by name in this book.

Sunrise
Note: No WindClan queens and kits appeared by name in this book.

The Fourth Apprentice
Note: No WindClan queens and kits appeared by name in this book.

Fading Echoes
Note: No WindClan queens or kits appeared by name in this book.

Night Whispers
Note: No WindClan queens or kits appeared by name in this book.

Sign of the Moon
Note: No WindClan queens or kits appeared by name in this book.

The Forgotten Warrior
Note: No WindClan queens or kits appeared by name in this book.

The Last Hope
Note: No WindClan queens or kits appeared by name in this book.

Shattered Sky
Note: No WindClan or ShadowClan queens or kits were revealed in this book.

Battles of the Clans
Note: No ShadowClan or WindClan queens were revealed in this book

References and citations
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