Poisoning is the ingestion of a substance that causes harm to the body, such as:

Eating or drinking poisonous substances or plants such as deathberries. Kits are the ones who usually fall victim to this, being curious and unaware of the danger.

Eating poisoned or rotten prey (known as crow-food) or drinking tainted water.

Inhaling too much smoke from a fire.

Being bitten by a venomous animal such as a snake.

If only a small quantity of poison is ingested, the cat usually just receives a bellyache, but larger amounts can cause death. Medicine cats treat these bellyaches with yarrow or nettle leaves, while mild bellyaches can be treated with juniper or watermint. If a cat has been severely poisoned (as in eating deathberries, as sorrelkit does in The Darkest Hour) they may become unconscious for a length of time.

See the chapter Deadly Herbs for more