Ayup. My cats are only predatory vs very small animals and bugs. . . .and crime here in the big apple is way down since it peaked in the 80s. . .but I bet my adolescence gave me some ranks of alertness.
I suspect, in relation to the OP, the errata will direct to Alertness rather than cat ranks (pun intended)
RandalThor, I saw a program recently, relating to how lions rarely eat herd culture Massai in Kenya, because their culture leans toward militancy, being armed all the time, and forming posses for hunting down and killing any man or cow eating lion. . .but in the Eastern seaboard of Tanzania the agriculturalist locals get eaten by lions fairly regularly, because their culture is non militant, people generally don't go around armed, and they don't posse up and hunt down man eater lions when they strike. . .Even in the modern era when guns make hunting down predators easier, in some cultures they seemingly tolerate a certain level of man eating predation, and have for as long as people can remember. (In pre modern India, people got eaten by tigers on a fairly regular basis, to the point where some tigers were thought to prey exclusively on people).
In europe, most of the megafauna predators were exterminated, not by farmers or vengeance seeking bands, but by the insatiable need to feed the Roman arenas, and the fact that for every animal that made it to the arena, ten or more died in capture, transit or storage. . .greed and spectacle, not a rational desire not to be part of anyone's diet.
So I wouldn't assume that in a game world where roving bands of violent adrenaline junkies (player characters) are tolerated, doesn't have animals (much less monsters) snacking on people. . .Hunting such creatures is a good chunk of many adventurer's occupational duties.
Heh, the above made me think of a game, where the party need to go out and capture monsters for the arena. . ."Don't kill the troll, he's worth nothing to us dead!"
