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[brilliantazure]

So I had a war dog recently die in my danger room. I had not prepared for this mishap, so I did not have a burial hall prepared, so I had to dig one.

Unfortunately, after digging one and putting in some coffins for pets (they even used one to bury a pet keet, whatever the hell that is, so I know there's nothing wrong with the tomb), they refuse to bury the dog. It's just laying in the dirt, a skeleton by now. It WAS on a refuse pile, but I got it off there after reading that they ignore pet corpses on refuse piles. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be fixing the problem.

At this point, the pet owner is already beyond miserable so it's more for my own benefit, but this happened once before in a previous fortress and I really would like to know what the hell is wrong with my dwarves and why they hate my poor militia captains and their dogs so much. The poor guy is going to kill himself at this rate.

[robertheinrich]

You could try dumping the corpse to an area with more traffic, then unforbid it. That might increase the chance that one of your dorfs decides to bury it.

Where is the dog corpse? Outside? In that case you might need to toggle how your dwarves handle refuse outside: (o)rders - (r)efuse - (o)dwarves gather refuse from outside (instead of ignoring it)

[peskyninja]

Dwarfs don't touch bodies outside when you deactivate collecting dead bodies.

[Loud Whispers]

War dogs are bugged to never be buried.