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[FallenAngel]

What exotic and strange animals has your fort trained?
Mine's gone a step underground and tamed Mole Dogs and Crundles, with the Mole Dogs having children in captivity, and the possibility of baby Crundles at some point.

[Zaerosz]

The current one that is about to go offline a bit further down on this very board in fact, has completely domesticated naked mole dogs, crundles, bugbats and elk birds, as well as having multiple trained captive animals including a black bear, two giant tiercel peregrines, a troll, a magma crab and a cave dragon, as well as a buttload of hungry heads that didn't end up pooping out babies.

[PDF urist master]

giant dingoes, dragons, giant cave spiders, grizzly bears, cave crocodiles, rutherers, elk birds (though I don't really keep them), naked mole dogs (at one point), giant grey langurs, giant eagles, giant raven, giant wren and a whole bunch that I don't remember.

I modded GCS to be breedable and trainable and I also modded dragons to be breedable. So far I have a sizable GCS population, farms for rutherers, lions, grizzlies and cave crocs, and a dragon hatchery which has a male and a female dragon that I caught recently. I got the lions from a trade.

[Zaerosz]

Anyone wants to make animal taming forts possibly a bit more interesting, try this mod out.

[than402]

in my current fort(after some meddling with the raws),i have tamed:

giant wild boars,blind cave bears,trolls,goblins,orcs,grey langur men,dingo men,voracious cave crawlers and i have some cave dragons who i am planning to make mammals for a while and then tame their young.

i also have giant dingoes,giant desert scorpions,grizzly bears,wolves and leopards from the elves,and with some luck i will have giant leopards too(elves can be pretty awesome when they want to)

however,i don't really use any of these.i just let them roam and kill kobold thieves and berserk dwarves,and sometimes i throw captured goblins against them just to see how long they will last.

[Button]

Mine's gone a step underground and tamed Mole Dogs and Crundles, with the Mole Dogs having children in captivity, and the possibility of baby Crundles at some point.

Unless you're using a mod, crundles won't breed - they don't have a child tag. Just lots and lots of tasty eggs.

My current fort's best tamed animal is the giant dingo. The best ever was probably the giant rattlesnake. Those things make fantastic guard animals.

[FallenAngel]

Update:
My fort has gotten great progress on domesticating Naked Mole Dogs (Many puppies are born Domesticated), and we have begun domesticating Rutherers.
Honestly, before going to the article about them, I thought they were zombielike humanoids that crawled.

[KingBacon]

This is the first fort that I've tried capturing critters. Got some Elephant Seals, Albatrosses, and Giant Puffins. Now I want some Giant Elephant Seals (they are a tad smaller than fully grown dragons.) PREPARE FOR THE BEACH MASTER!!!!! (Modding them for war training might make them OP.)

[FallenAngel]

I could pull a Syrupleaf and edit the raws to make WAR MOLE DOGS.
Yes, I know they had War Giant Moles, but close enough.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Using the Dwarf Fortress from Scratch mod, my next fort will attempt to achieve a sizable population of dragons. That's mostly so I can test the capabilities of something I've nerfed to semimegabeast. The same will be done with something resembling mutant four-winged pterosaurs, to see if they are overpowered as pets and to see what I can do to nerf them.

What I actually want to tame for non-testing purposes are the mod's version of a basilisk. I could make quite a profitable industry off selling the statues that result. A window would provide the necessary cover, with a floodgate* or some such object shielding migrants and traders from it.

*Using the player-activated switch exploit to counter halfling/formic/etc. lazyness.

[Beast Tamer]

Lately the most exotic animals I've tamed are wild boars. The best part is that, just like dogs, they don't need a source of food outside of training. Unlike dogs, however, they seem to give more meat and byproducts.

[PDF urist master]

naked mole dogs only live for a year or two, so they're not maximumly efficient for a fort.

my dragon eggs just hatched. slaughtered the subpar ones so they wouldn't crowd my fort. I don't know if dragon children can breathe fire, but it'd be awesome if they could.

[Flarp]

I started a somewhat abortive Draltha breeding program that failed mostly because the parents tended to have a single baby at a time, and my underground pastures just didn't have the grass density to keep them alive long enough.

They do give -loads- of meat, though.

[thegoatgod_pan]

I started a somewhat abortive Draltha breeding program that failed mostly because the parents tended to have a single baby at a time, and my underground pastures just didn't have the grass density to keep them alive long enough.

They do give -loads- of meat, though.

I think Draltha share the elephant bug: they need food quicker than they can eat it and much quicker than a pasture regrows.

Jabberers are where it is all at: vicious beaks, huge, can dismember a troll with ease, lay a few eggs: enough to set up a quick baby program but not so many as to cause a crocsposion.