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[Teneb]

It's probably due to their weight. Add some upright menacing spikes at the target area.

[ASCIt]

All you have to do is surround the base of the falls with weapon traps. The cats fall --> they get stunned on impact with the ground --> the buzzsaws activate --> the dwarves stop caring, and start placing bets on where the cats fall.

[Nan]

In my experience pastures are not a good choice for concentrating animals. It seems that whenever an animal in a pasture gets "bumped" by another creature (i.e. as when one creature tries to path through another) it loses it's pasture setting and wanders off. Restraints can be useful for making breeding animals stay put. Walls are ideal. Tiny meeting zones work superbly for concentrating animals in a small space, but this of course only works if the area is physically separated from the main fortress, or if you don't mind dwarves being concentrated in it too.

[wierd]

Since the intent is to make adorable kittens fall to their horrible doom, doctor logum's research into the fatality of drop heights, coupled with "kitteh is angry!" Sardine packing seems optimal.

Basically, create a 9 z-level shaft. On the 10th level, create a 1x1 pen right next to the exposed shaft. Pack kittehs inside the pen. Build a wall all around the 2 adjacent squares. Remove the pen.

Kitthes will have catsplosions. This is unavoidable. The resulting overcrowding will result in kittehs being angry. When they fightc they will dodge, and fall into the exposed shaft. The 9 zlevel drop is garanteed fatal.

Kitties never escape. Kitties continually rain from above via the shaft. Set and forget convenience.


Bonus: you can place 4 concentrators around a single shaft for maximal kitten flow.