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[Dangield]

I made a fortress focused on animal training. Therefore I have placed many cage traps on the map, for catching animals. After some time I have noticed that something else got caught too. It is a rattlesnake woman. Obviously it is not an animal so I cannot train her. I know, that animal people may sometimes visit a fortress and even ask to join it, but I don't think he is a visitor, as she is listed as 'Wild Animal (Caged)' in unit menu.

Is there anything I can do with her, except releasing her?

Also will she attack me during release?

[Fleeting Frames]

In vanilla, pretty much nothing - would need pet tag to even approach usefulness, and that's still buggy. You can use them in pits where you drop goblins and they'll gain combat skills unlike regular rattlesnakes, so there's that.

And eh, I'd guess she'd just run away scared, but could.

[evilDagmar]

"Everyone's good at something, even if it's being a bad example."

Take those caged aberrations and mount them on display in their own room (what some would call a Zoo) out of the way someplace where dwarves can avoid it if they want to.  If Urist McSensitivepants wants to go in there and get freaked out, well, he won't do it repeatedly (or he'll soon cease to be a problem) but you'd be amazed at how many dwarves enjoy going to see the freakshow.

Alternatively, mount that cage in a small room, with a chain restraint that you can later assign for Justice with a gap between them.  Thiswill provide extra incentive for dwarves to behave, and should you happen upon a vampire you can just remove the door and wall them up inside together.

Now if you're thinking, "does he really do that to vampires?"  The answer is yes.  If you eat a handful of my skilled craftsdwarves not only will I seal you up inside a wall like a cask of rare sherry, I'll have a statue commissioned showing you being tortured by the god who cursed you or simply withering away as a warning to anyone else, and I will mount it right outside where the door used to be without a second thought.  My current fortress presently has two such displays.