"They are buildings, so if that's going to sink it..."

". . . Maybe if some Clan cats want to move there it would?  I don't think normal cats would mind."

"Okay. So there'd be food in various displays and people can take some of it, maybe in a basket with wheels or something, and a way to pay for it - that part may be important if it's got to be fresh unpackaged food, if it's okay for it to be dry or canned or frozen then I can make it less frequently in larger batches and don't need to establish a supporting economy."

"I don't think cats can open cans on their own.  I've tried a lot."

"I can give them all electric can openers."

"I think that Clan cats are also the only ones who would really care about it being fresh and unpackaged."

"I get that sense. Will it matter a lot what prey is handy? I'll have to import it, I am not a mama bird and can't get a nestful of eggs to maturity without way more time investment than I care to put in. And humans like wild birds and are not wild about wild rodents."

"Oh, I hadn't thought about there not already being any.  Are any rodents likely to sneak in anyways?"

"I guess they might if I'm not super hardcore about making sure they don't, but we'll mostly be importing people, not stuff, so it'll be hard for rats to sneak into shipping crates or whatever."

"Hmmmmm.  Well, birds are fine too."

"Yeah, I just want to know in advance if I should expect cats to be complaining about not having shrews or whatever they're into."

"I liked catching mice for my Twolegs and I don't really know what other parts of the experience might be important to other cats."

"Hopefully everybody can compromise on birds. Is it very important to torment the prey before it dies, nonperson cats do a lot of that and it's pretty grisly but I don't know if it's important to the experience."

"Oh no, I always broke their necks right away."

"It was for me!  I know Clan cats hunt for food but what's the point at all if you don't need food and aren't using them as toys?"

"Oh dear. I am going to maybe have a slightly worse time integrating the populations if the cats want to not only kill but also torture the songbirds."

". . . Should I stop hunting here too?"

"I'm assuming all the prey here is just constructs without internal experiences, sort of like how not-me twolegs are?"

"Probably but I don't know how I would be sure."

"Well, at any rate I'm only partly concerned for the birds and the rest of my concern is about how humans who are fond of birds will react to their neighbors torturing birds, and that part at least is definitely not at issue here."

"I mostly used to hunt when I didn't have any good toys and my Twolegs weren't playing enough with me.  So if you can make good enough toys maybe just do that, and I'll try and do that here too.  Since one day maybe I can hang out with more Twolegs again and I don't want them to not like me."

"Thank you." Scritch scritch. "Though I can just hear Fireheart telling me that Clan cats don't play with toys. Maybe I'm wrong."

"Why would any Clan cats want to move?  Especially if you're preserving their forest?"

"I guess maybe none of them will. I imagined they might do tourism, or there might be older cats who want to retire from Clan life but still have some sort of dignity objection."

"I don't know about either of those things.  They're very . . . themselves."