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[Quietust]

It's not in the bug list, and a search through this forum turned up nothing (though one old post mentioned it as an aside complaint that was never addressed), but this behavior seems totally wrong.

When ordered to bait an animal trap with meat, the trapper will place an entire stack of meat in the trap rather than take a single unit (as would be taken when eating). When large animals have been butchered, this is a ridiculous waste, and the implications are quite comical as well - how exactly do you fit the meat of an entire elephant into a single animal trap?

[Footkerchief]

This is noted down as something to fix, but not in dev_bugs as you might expect:

# Req464, EXCESSIVE BAIT, (Future): Dwarves should not use entire stacks of meat or fish to bait traps.

[Tradanbattlan]

I have two answers: A bigger trap to hold the meat, or pull a Looney Toons and squish them all together into a smaller wad and put it in the trap, when it then springs back up and fits the trap