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[AWdeV]

It's not as if Other kill: cavy sow is all that impressive on your resumé anyway. 

The sneaking is a good point but there's precious little creatures that can consistently outrun a bolt and if they're flying it's generally pretty easy for your dwarfs to kill them. A single pain-causing bolt counts for ten.

[GhostDwemer]

I've yet to see a hunting dog ever do anything useful. One time, my hunter emptied his entire quiver into a deer that just refused to die, and the dog just sat there. Then he turned to go back to the fort, but promptly fell asleep. The dog just sat there as the deer ever so slowly crawled away.

[AWdeV]

hahaha. I know a war dog can make short work of a group of badgers, that's why I started embarking with dogs in the first place several version ago.

[Alidus]

In my experience, goats, llamas, alpacas, even horses and deer aren't so bad to keep fed, so you might want to keep a few around for emergencies.

Yaks, water buffalo, and large grazers are very hard to feed. I don't know about yaks but my water buffalo starve if I have more than one in a max sized pasture - I think this is mainly because they eat so much that they get stuck on one square eating and they can't get enough due to excluding each other from the food. They tend to just stand on top of each other for some silly reason rather than moving to the vast expanse of edible grass that hasn't even been touched yet.

[Garath]

The goat doesn't need to be pastured if it's a pet. The owned will occasionally feed it. Since the pet will constantly run off the pasture to follow the owner, this saves a lot of animal hauling effort.

On the dig soil layer thing:
if there is soil instead of rock underground, fungus can start growing there once you breach one of the caverns that has things growing in it. Animals can graze on it and the "trees" can be cut. This is a much safer option than using the surface trees and pastures if there is a lot of goblin activity.