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[Dornak]

Hi all, fairly new to DF and got a problem that's driving me mad!

I have a bunch of tamed animals in a room where I've built cages and assigned the animals.  I want to free some animals so I can slaughter them, but when I try the action gets cancelled with the message 'So and so cancels Releasing Large Creature: Need empty cage'.  I don't want to put them in another cage, just have them wandering around.

This happens with a tame cat as well as a tame camel or bear.

[Dwarfu]

You don't need to release the animals to slaughter them.  Just go to the status screen (z) and hit enter on the Animals tab.  Mark which animals you want slaughtered.  The butcher will get them out of the cages as he needs them.

As far as I can tell, the only time I've had to release animals first was when trying to tame them (dogs - not sure about others animals).

[Dornak]

I think I've worked out what happened.  When I was caging animals, the caravan was in town and I caged their animals somehow.  So they don't show up on my status screen.  Might just have to dumps them somewhere, all in one cage.

[Micro102]

i know this is a large bump but i thought it would be easier to include all these posts as well. make everything easier

i have the same problem with the "cancles release" messages....except i dont even want to release anything. they just started showing up because a hoary marmot i captures gave birth....so how do i release them all?

[Marlowe]

What I want to know is how you get a corpse out of a cage...

[SHAD0Wdump]

Link the cage to a lever.

[Micro102]

thank you!

[Marlowe]

Link the cage to a lever.

Assuming you were talking to me, from memory I tried that and got told there was "no linkable object". Or something.

[bombcar]

Build the cage first, I believe, then link it.