User blog comment:D2r/Unanswered Questions of Redwall/@comment-1479469-20100607030135

@ Mushyz: Bathing in the pond makes sense, but if they used the woods for their business, then what do they do during seiges? Use a barrel? Simimarly, if there are outhouses, how do they get rid of the waste, particularly during a seige? Real-life castles usually dropped it into the moat (a slave would go into the bottom of latrine shafts with a shovel and clean it out), but since Redwall has no moat...