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[Fewah]

Ive tried removing HEART from its raw..

did nothing..

i cant take it anymore.. i have so many and they are all owned making it impossible to kil!!!

ontop of that its kiling my fps! theres about 50 cats!!!!

[silhouette]

Remove the brain... or lungs....

[h3lblad3]

Raise homeotherm like a boss!

[blue emu]

Changing their body temperature so that they spontaneously explode is a good laugh... you'll lose a lot of Dwarves as collateral damage, though.

[87]

i used to just draft the owning dwarf and walk him into a drowning room.  Disallow pet travel through the door once he is in there and move him out of the room again then drown the trapped pet.  Although i dont remember if cats even follow their owners around.

[Organum]

I think removing the heart was my idea... Apparently, you don't need a heart to live in DF. Go figure.

Removing the brain or lungs should do the trick. Those, at least, are essential organs with the [THOUGH] and [BREATHE] tags, respectively.

[Fewah]

ya it was yours lol

[Organum]

I'm sorry about that. ^_^;

[Syndic]

I think removing the heart or lungs from the raws just tells the game that cats don't have hearts or lungs, and thus don't need them to live,  obviously - making them harder to kill. Not what you want

go with 87's idea - while cats don't directly follow their owner, they do carry any vermin they caught to him.

edit: I never have any trouble with catsplosions - the cats always strive to eradicate all vermin ANYWHERE, meaning they're quite likely to be the first to spot a goblin ambush. That tends to take care of the cat. 

[Jelle]

Confirming that removing the brains works like a charm, the cats won't die straight away but instead they'll move around a minute like a zombiecat then die from suffocation.

[Psieye]

There are various exotic things you could try in the raws (make cat flesh spontaneously vapourise), but removing the brain achieves it elegantly.

[Medicine Man]

How about make half of a cat melt and the other half freeze?is that possible?(attempts to learn raw editing)

[Dr. Melon]

Maybe you could create a tall tower in your fortress, make the surrounding air a Pit, then assign all cats to the pit. Your entire fortress population will start dragging cats away and flinging them off the tower (or down a long shaft, whatever).
Works for me, and you get about 600 units of meat from a large-scale cat culling.

[Niveras]

I've never had success raising homeotherm temperature, but perhaps I just didn't raise it high enough. I just add the [AQUATIC] tag instead. Same effect as removing the brain I suppose (they eventually "drown" in air), but I guess if a cat is near water they may jump in to save themselves.

[gtmattz]

I simply add [AQUATIC] to cats when they have become overpopulated.  They air-drown nearly instantly when you load the game with that set.