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[simonthedwarf]

No matter where I put the dog, pet or not pet, available or not available, I always get "Cancels job: no such creature" when I try to train it.

[Aachen]

Pets certainly won't be trained.

Have you got the animals caged or pastured? I tend to cage puppies and let adults back out when I need some trained. If they're pastured, it may be that the dogs are claimed by a "pen/pasture animal" job.

Did you try tearing down and rebuilding the kennels?

Is this a vanilla or modded install?

[Lancezh]

Remember that you can't train puppy's either, you have to wait for them to be grown up.

[i874236951]

Have you got the animals caged or pastured? I tend to cage puppies and let adults back out when I need some trained. If they're pastured, it may be that the dogs are claimed by a "pen/pasture animal" job.

Are pastured animals considered valid for training even if they aren't tasked?  I thought only wandering, non-caged, non-pastured animals worked, because they come to the kennels on their own, after the trainer gets there and starts the task (i.e. they aren't "dragged").

[simonthedwarf]

^The above

I finally understood how to get animals to train. They have to have the tag of course, and they have to be tame, and they have to NOT be assigned to a pasture or a restraint.

[Sphalerite]

Pastured animals can be trained if the kennel is built inside the pasture.  In my fortresses I usually dig out one room where I build the kennel, and then assign the room as a pasture where I put all animals that I might want to train.  It works out pretty well.