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[ledgekindred]

I have a plethora of War Naked Mole Dogs and War Rhesus Macaques thanks to some cage traps and liberal re-tagging of raws.  They breed like crazy, so I have way more than I can ever assign, so they wander the fortress.  Mainly they stay in the meeting area with the rest of the dwarves, by the well.  (This is all important exposition, got it?)

I just got a forgotten beast show up.  Litheme!  An enormous three-eyed bee. It has a curling trunk and it belches and croaks. It's purple & taupe exoskeleton is wrinkled.  Beware its poisonous sting!

A giant, purple and taupe, belching, croaking, wrinkly bee.  That's just ... gross.

So I recall my citizens to the "Inside" burrow, send my military to the panic zone in the tunnel leading up from the caverns.  I have a wooden door standing by as bait for any building destroyers who come up from the caverns and the panic zone is just past the ... uh ... where is the door.  Oh crap.  Did I forget to rebuild it after the last building destroyer showed up?

Where the hell did Litheme just go.

Up the well.  Woops.

So now I'm imagining my 12-year old fort, with its elite military and only a handful of deaths over its lifetime, succumbing to a stupid bee that decided to fly up the well into the midst of the majority of my citizens, with my military too far away to make much of a difference.  I figure I'm in for either annihilation by bee or tantrum spiral once it kills enough dwarfs.

Only that is the same room where a dozen War Naked Mole Dogs, a War Buzzard and a couple of War Rhesus Macaques also happened to be hanging around.  I was stunned to see that they eliminated the FB before my military had a chance to even get halfway there, without a single death and the only injury being the War Buzzard getting its left knee broken.  (Buzzards have knees?)

When going back over the combat reports, the mole dogs mainly bit at its legs and thorax, tearing chunks out and opening up arteries and tearing tendons.  Meanwhile one of the macaques had jumped on the beast's head and was busy tearing its eyes out and biting it in the head.  (Mmm, tastes like filth.)  Pretty quickly, the FB succumbed to something (the reports didn't show any specific death blow, so I guess it was blood loss/failed saving throw?) and keeled over dead.

I have about fifty naked mole puppies in a cage, waiting for them to mature.  Sadly they only live about four years.  Happily, they are constantly shooting out litters of 2-3 pups at a time.  I'm setting "Train War Animal" on repeat and making an army of these little buggers.  I can't help but think about Molenarok from Syrupleaf.  Only this time ... IT WILL WORK!

NAKED Molenarok!

Ew.

[Silly Theory]

Watch out for the disease they spread.

BTW, you can train those animals normally? Or is that a mod/you edited?

[Urist Imiknorris]

thanks to some cage traps and liberal re-tagging of raws.

[franti]

Naked Mole Dogs are great in a fight. Better than Dogs. And, plus, if you get too many just put the puppiesi n a cage and wait a year or two and your population will be normal again.

[peskyninja]

you're lucky,waaaaaaaaaaaay to lucky,on my current fort i have about 40 giant tame badgers and 30 foxes so i'm suffering from a giant badger explosion,before those pests arrived i had 50 gooses.

[franti]

you're lucky,waaaaaaaaaaaay to lucky,on my current fort i have about 40 giant tame badgers and 30 foxes so i'm suffering from a giant badger explosion,before those pests arrived i had 50 gooses.

I once had a bearsplosion. Black Bears AND Grizzly Bears. I just chained them all up in the enterance of my fort. As soon as a goblin showed up, it got about five more seconds to experience the joy of having limbs.
Naked Mole Dogs are the best because they breed quickly, die quickly, are tough in a fight (it's the incisors that do it, I'd imagine), and they're big enough to make them a viable food source.

[HorridOwn4ge]

you're lucky,waaaaaaaaaaaay to lucky,on my current fort i have about 40 giant tame badgers and 30 foxes so i'm suffering from a giant badger explosion,before those pests arrived i had 50 gooses.

I once had a bearsplosion. Black Bears AND Grizzly Bears. I just chained them all up in the enterance of my fort. As soon as a goblin showed up, it got about five more seconds to experience the joy of having limbs.
Naked Mole Dogs are the best because they breed quickly, die quickly, are tough in a fight (it's the incisors that do it, I'd imagine), and they're big enough to make them a viable food source.

Can you slaughter animals whom die of old age?

[franti]

you're lucky,waaaaaaaaaaaay to lucky,on my current fort i have about 40 giant tame badgers and 30 foxes so i'm suffering from a giant badger explosion,before those pests arrived i had 50 gooses.

I once had a bearsplosion. Black Bears AND Grizzly Bears. I just chained them all up in the enterance of my fort. As soon as a goblin showed up, it got about five more seconds to experience the joy of having limbs.
Naked Mole Dogs are the best because they breed quickly, die quickly, are tough in a fight (it's the incisors that do it, I'd imagine), and they're big enough to make them a viable food source.

Can you slaughter animals whom die of old age?

Not certain. I think any animal can be slaughtered, as long as it isn't a pet.

[RAKninja]

you're lucky,waaaaaaaaaaaay to lucky,on my current fort i have about 40 giant tame badgers and 30 foxes so i'm suffering from a giant badger explosion,before those pests arrived i had 50 gooses.

i have the limit of dogs, cats, alpaca, and now black bears are exploding.  i get 12 fps =D

cats kill vermin.   war dogs slow enemies, spot ambushers and thieves, and prevent enemy dodge for my melee troops.  alpacas give me meat, bones, hides, wool, and milk.  black bears......  guess they're gonna be for butchering.

and buzzards have knees. 

[Sphalerite]

Can you slaughter animals whom die of old age?

Tame animals which die from any cause other than being deliberately slaughtered by a dwarf at a butcher's shop cannot be butchered.  So the corpses of tame animals which died of old age cannot be butchered.  Wild animals which die of old age can have their corpses butchered.

[Astronomygoon]

War Rhesus Macaques

Next you'll want to build an obelisk.