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[orius]

I figured that rabbits would be an easy source of food, since they'd probably breed very quickly. Well, that last part was certainly true. I've got bunnies like you wouldn't believe.

But when I started slaughtering the adults, I discovered a problem. Yeah, you're probably laughing already, but I didn't realize that you don't get meat from rabbits!

This is why I atomsmash all pet rabbits (and cavies).  They're grazers and totally worthless.  I don't need them breeding.  Urist can get over losing his pet bunny in the legendary dining hall while munching on a selection of gourmet dorf food.

[Tomsod]

Sometimes, but very inconsistently, dwarves will feed their hungry pets. You cannot rely on this, however. Rabbits may be the only creature that can survive if made a pet without a pasture because they take a long time to go from hungry to dead from starvation, giving their dwarf a long time to get to caring for them. Anything with a grazer value less than 10000 will surely die if not pastured. It may depend on the owner's personality traits, too, though which traits, exactly, would affect it I don't know.

Also, pets will only be fed with raw, edible food, not cooked meals, so if you don't have any meat or plump helmets around, they're dead anyway.

What if you wall in an altruistic dwarf vampire who likes elephants for their strength and his pet hunting elephant in a big enough pasture with some piles of raw plants? Maybe the elephant can be keeped alive this way? This is interesting.