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[Dasleah]

I think this could also be solved by smarter Pit management - being able mass designate a species and gender, for instance, so you could plop all your female cats into isolation.

Of course, given how pregnancy works in DF now, it still wouldn't work. It checks for gender and that's it as far as I'm aware - proximity and distance doesn't factor in.

I wish it did. Cats getting impregnated from across my Dining Hall is a terrible image to have.

[A_Fey_Dwarf]

This freaks me out as well. Reminds me of a fortress where the only female cat managed to get impregnated after being tied up on on an inaccessible lava island. I left it there as a lookout for goblins. 3 years later about 20 cats were stuck on a 2x3 block of land.

[ May 15, 2008: Message edited by: A_Fey_Dwarf ]

[gerkinzola]

quote:Originally posted by JT:
<STRONG>Castration is pretty straightforward.  Probably undescribably painful, of course, but it's slice, yank, snip, and sew for the gentler version, or just a simple pull and chop for the wince-inducing version.
[ May 14, 2008: Message edited by: JT ]</STRONG>

if farmers castrate sheep they can use a rubbery band... not very painful and no sewing required dwarves could use twine.

[Jetman123]

I can picture it now.

Urist1: Okay, how do we do this, Urist2?

Urist2: I know the drill for these buggers. Hold him down. Now, you just take the knife and...

Cat: MRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWL! *bleeds everywhere*

Urist2: There ya go!

Urist1: *tantrum*

[Kidiri]

quote:Originally posted by JT:
<STRONG>or just a simple pull and chop for the wince-inducing version.</STRONG>

quote:Originally posted by A_Fey_Dwarf:
<STRONG>The balls just shrivel up and fall off after a couple of weeks. </STRONG>

You just had to put that those in there , didn't you? It makes me wonder why I keep reading this topic...

[JT]

"Are you enjoying your ox testicle?"
"Oh yes, very much."
"...Really?  Are you sure you don't want a coconut instead?"
"Nope, I'm good."

[Haven]

Just make sure they have some Animal Care skill already.

'Oookay, FOURTH time's the charm...' Chop.

[MuonDecay]

quote:Originally posted by Dasleah:
<STRONG>I think this could also be solved by smarter Pit management - being able mass designate a species and gender, for instance, so you could plop all your female cats into isolation.

Of course, given how pregnancy works in DF now, it still wouldn't work. It checks for gender and that's it as far as I'm aware - proximity and distance doesn't factor in.

I wish it did. Cats getting impregnated from across my Dining Hall is a terrible image to have.</STRONG>

It also makes having lots of war-dogs on restraints a hassle. I've got several of them in a few places used as bait-with-teeth (to lure enemies close to marksdwarves) or chained up to detect and shred thieves before they hassle the civilians, and most of them are female. Apparently the few males are getting really good at telehumping all the females, because there's a steady enough flow of puppies to keep 10 dwarves fed year-round on puppymeat alone.

I can't even count how many I stuffed into a cage before I started the systematic puppycide. I think I'll train 40 of them into war dogs and unleash them all at once at the flanks of the next siege.

Though, from what I've seen, females in cages don't seem to get pregnant, so you could assign them in cages individually, were you patient enough. It might be a good enough stopgap until castration and/or improving the tele-pregnancy find their way into a release (hopefully both, but I'm willing to bet on the latter at least).