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[Dorf3000]

I'm surprised and disappointed nobody has mentioned the true dwarven solution to too many cats, known as the thermonuclear catsplosion..

[HOMEOTHERM] is the relevant tag, right?

[Grendus]

For a less dwarfy (and less fortress-ending) raw solution to catsplosion, give them a the [AQUATIC] tag. They'll airdrown very quickly. Keep a few in a cage to reboot the population, then lock up your crazy cat lady dwarf because he/she will tantrum very fast. Losing 20 cats at once can do that.

[sunshaker]

You can also give them [MAXAGE:3:6] so that they all die sometime between the ages of 3 and 6.

[G-Flex]

Doesn't caging kittens upon birth eliminate the need for any of this, though?

[NW_Kohaku]

Doesn't caging kittens upon birth eliminate the need for any of this, though?

Provided you have dwarves who can cage them almost immediatly upon their birth, yes.  If nobody gets around to it in time, they may latch onto a crazy cat lady before they can be caged.

Also, even caged animals take up some resources...  And even dead cats fill up your units screen with spam.

[Grendus]

Doesn't caging kittens upon birth eliminate the need for any of this, though?

I've gotten back to back "Urist McCat has given birth to kittens." and "Urist McFastKitten has adopted Urist McLovesCatsForTheirAloofness." Sometimes you can cage them. Other times, you have to kill them.

One very interesting solution is to use pathing designations to build animal execution paths. Dig a tunnel with a longer, secondary route, and designate the shorter path as restricted. Animals ignore traffic designations, so if you put repeater spikes on the shorter path you should slowly kill off your entire fort's population of animals. It doesn't discriminate though, tame dogs, cows, horses, cats, etc will all be skewered.

[NW_Kohaku]

Actually, I find just setting doors as non-pet-passible will do plenty...

Make a spiked hallway with a lever (linked to nothing)at the other end of it, and a door at the other end.  Make that lever only pullable by the specific dwarf with too many cats, and queue a lever pulling.  Then, when they go in to pull that lever, set the door as not being pet-passable, so that most, if not all, of the cats get trapped, and spiked when you have the dwarf then pull the spiking lever repeatedly.  (It's extra cruel when you have dwarves go insane from killing their own loved ones.) 

If you're certain the crazy cat dwarf will go crazy, and want to kill them, too, just make it a magma/drowning chamber.

[LoneJedi7]

I'm surprised and disappointed nobody has mentioned the true dwarven solution to too many cats, known as the thermonuclear catsplosion..

[HOMEOTHERM] is the relevant tag, right?

the best part about the thermonuclear catsplosion is that they dont explode if they're in a cage..........you know what im thinking.   place cages throughout the map, put cats in them, link to levers, mod cats temperature.........you now have cat-mines.

[Odd!x]

you mean to say that they will happily live their lives in a cage not exploding until the moment they're let out of the cage?

if so, you may be the single best person in the world for coming up with that idea.

[Lonewolf]

71 wolves, no big deal, the FPS is almost the same. After giving them the vermin hunter tag, however, the frame rate got considerably reduced.

[Blargityblarg]

I wonder, if the cats' [PREFSTRING] is removed, if dwarves will not have a preference for them, or if they'll just 'like cats'. If the former, this may be another weapon from the raws in our battle against the furry menace.

[Aspgren]

IN REPLY TO THE CAT CAGERS

You don't need to cage the cats to prevent adoption. The cat has to interract with the dwarf to adopt him. If you get someone who doesn't like cats to throw them in a 1x1 pit then they will not adopt anyone ever.

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I imprisoned a cat in one of my forts, simply because i couldnt execute the owner, one of my starting 7. alot of people wanted cats but i outlawed them because they ate my cave spiders. in the confined space she somehow bred with immigrant cats who were executed, but no one. not a single kitten was adopted! in spite of there being 20 of them before I put them all to rest. In later forts, when I have wanted to use cats for experiments, I have pitted them the first second of the forts creation and no one has ever adopted them! .. until they're let out to be tested.

HOWEVER I have had the misfortune of having a caged animal wash away into a watery pit, one that was close to impossible to drain. THIS animal was adopted and the owner spammed me with messages that she couldnt reach the animal. So remember! Pit your animals!

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In the end I executed the dwarf owner. First I tried throwing her into a room with a goblin, but through a stroke of luck she broke the goblins arm. After which they hid in different corners of the room .. once she became exhausted she started spamming me with "CANCELS REST: INTERRUPTED BY GOBLIN" ... and i had no choice. I killed the goblin and put her to bed in a drowning chamber. I noticed that in spite of being in bed, she would not rest. She cried and shouted and spammed me that she was being harassed by a goblin. CLEARLY she was insane and once the lever was pulled and the water filled the room everyone was grateful.

[TheWealthyAardvark]

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In the end I executed the dwarf owner. First I tried throwing her into a room with a goblin, but through a stroke of luck she broke the goblins arm. After which they hid in different corners of the room .. once she became exhausted she started spamming me with "CANCELS REST: INTERRUPTED BY GOBLIN" ... and i had no choice. I killed the goblin and put her to bed in a drowning chamber. I noticed that in spite of being in bed, she would not rest. She cried and shouted and spammed me that she was being harassed by a goblin. CLEARLY she was insane and once the lever was pulled and the water filled the room everyone was grateful.

Your spam there would appear to be bug #000957.

EDIT:  "Now that I've checked out that thread, let's see what else is new. What's this? A thread about Announcement Spam? And Aspgren has posted it in, acknowledging that this is very bug?"  *facepalm*

[LoneJedi7]

you mean to say that they will happily live their lives in a cage not exploding until the moment they're let out of the cage?

if so, you may be the single best person in the world for coming up with that idea.

Thats exactly what i mean to say. and while i appreciate the kind words, im not the originator of the idea, someone beat me to it.

[Aspgren]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In the end I executed the dwarf owner. First I tried throwing her into a room with a goblin, but through a stroke of luck she broke the goblins arm. After which they hid in different corners of the room .. once she became exhausted she started spamming me with "CANCELS REST: INTERRUPTED BY GOBLIN" ... and i had no choice. I killed the goblin and put her to bed in a drowning chamber. I noticed that in spite of being in bed, she would not rest. She cried and shouted and spammed me that she was being harassed by a goblin. CLEARLY she was insane and once the lever was pulled and the water filled the room everyone was grateful.

Your spam there would appear to be bug #000957.

EDIT:  "Now that I've checked out that thread, let's see what else is new. What's this? A thread about Announcement Spam? And Aspgren has posted it in, acknowledging that this is very bug?"  *facepalm*

Yes. Yes I have.