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[Poindexterity]

So i was digging this BIG hole a while ago, and had pastured my war dogs near the top at the entrance.
One day, a few of them had puppies and i threw them in the same (small) pasture.
Then a woodcutter walks by, and puppy nips at him (too little room in the pasture, i assume).
The woodcutter dodges the bite and falls down a 25 story drop to his death, but that's not the important part.

It got me thinking. Can i just pasture an insane amount of weak animals in a choke point where all my traffic has to pass (but where there are no ledges to dodge off) and just use the ensuing animal melee as a "danger room bath"?
if it works, i can be constantly leveling up my entire fort's dodge skill with no REAL extra work.

problems?
suggestions?

[Mitchewawa]

Yep, there's a Girlinhat thread called Dwarven Child Care for using this. Give it a read, it's a blast.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Yep, there's a Girlinhat thread called Dwarven Child Care for using this. Give it a read, it's a blast.

I thought that used full-grown dogs?

[Nan]

Forget puppies, you can use bunnies to train your civilians. In one game where I was testing some stuff, I stuffed everyone in a tiny meeting zone which happened to be next to a 1-z drop - but the drop was onto a staircase (and when things are already falling when the hit a staircase, they keep falling...).

Someone's pet bunny caused the death of several useless immigrants. It WAS a viscous bunny, it bit one dwarf on the head!

Oh yeah, and usually things like bunnies will die of starvation without a pasture, but if they are pets the owner feeds them, so a pet bunny can enjoy a long career of dwarven homicide.

[Elifre]

TURKEYS.

They're small, breed really fast, and you can horribly scar your dwarves without much actual damage. Plus you can use the eggs for food and the dead poults for bones to supply your militia.

Check out Project SPARTAN (aka Dwarven Childcare).

[Loud Whispers]

Place the automated turkey/dog grinder over a pillar overlooking where your civvies gather, and they'll get constant blood splatters. Constant blood splatters = Constant baths = Happy Dorfs, who doesn't stink of anything.

[Oliolli]

Place the automated turkey/dog grinder over a pillar overlooking where your civvies gather, and they'll get constant blood splatters. Constant blood splatters = Constant baths = Happy Dorfs, who doesn't stink of anything.

And if something falls and splatters near the civvies, they're one step closer to being utterly traumatized!

[Loud Whispers]

Place the automated turkey/dog grinder over a pillar overlooking where your civvies gather, and they'll get constant blood splatters. Constant blood splatters = Constant baths = Happy Dorfs, who doesn't stink of anything.

And if something falls and splatters near the civvies, they're one step closer to being utterly traumatized!

*Starts raining cats and dogs again*

Urist McBob has seen the legendary Councillor Urist Mcdoor recently. Urist McBob doesn't afraid of anything anymore.

[Funk]

you should add a few large animals to train up your docs and harden your weak civvies.