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[Gigalith]

Cats are thrown in the nearest refuse pile or chasmed when they die. Then the owner is "forced to endure the decay of a pet". But there is no way to bury cats!

[Seryntas]

Are you sure it was the same cat?

</Matrix>

No, but seriously, are you?  The cats that aren't pets will get chasmed or thrown into refuse piles.  Either way, if you leave a pet outside to rot (whether in a graveyard pile or in a refuse pile), it'll get noticed by its former master, although I still don't understand why it should be the government's responsibility to bury pets (outside of the concern regarding smell).

[Frugal]

Do you have coffins, set for burial?  Pets go in them, just like dwarves do.

[Gigalith]

Allow me to rephrase. It's not that pets can't be buried, it's that catscan't be buried.

For example, I once had a cat who killed a frogman and thus gained a name. But when it died, it was thrown into the refuse pile, not the graveyard. I even had a grave all set for  it, and set to burial, and it was ignored.

Later, when a pet dog died, a empty grave I had assigned for burial was used to bury it.

I have whole pages of dead cats in the unit list, many of which were pets. None of them were given graves. But the single dog that died got a grave all to it's own.

[bbb]

well.. cat's aren't pets per se... after all, they adopt dwarves... not the other way around!

... bit of a pain with the sadness stuff though

[Toady One]

Yeah, this is a known problem with the way cat adoptions work in general.  It needs to tie into the regular pet system more closely.