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[Snaake]

So, in the fort before my last, I thought I'd try to make a couple of dwarves happy by giving them pets. Also, try to learn how to do that. So, I a) trapped a pond turtle (took a bit of figuring out how to get the trap set, and then forgot to bait it for a while, etc.) and b) bought a caged tame grey squirrel (from the elves, iirc). I had at least 1 child, if not a couple of dwarves, who admired one of said 2 species.

I then proceeded to set them as available in the stocks-animal menu, and after taming it I think I moved the turtle into a cage too (glass=terrarium). However, several years passed, with noone adopting them as pets. What did I do wrong?

Was it that the dwarves were children (but children can arrive with pets and be adopted by cats...)? Or was it that the stockpile was upstairs, in my animal training area, with hardly anyone walking by, so nobody noticed the cute little critters?


P.S. The DF2012:Pet article at the wiki could use a bit more fleshing out, maybe.

[saintjebus]

I think caged animals won't ever be adopted. I could be wrong, though.

[Snaake]

How do you get tamed vermin to be adopted then, since I gather that's the only function for the whole trapping skill and animal traps?

You can't remove the creature from the trap without having a cage to put it in.

[saintjebus]

But after you tame it, you can take it out of the cage. From what I understand (and please take with a grain of salt - I'm by no means certain that this is the correct method) tame animals that are hanging out in meeting areas get adopted (or adopt, for cats). I don't know if your current cats will kill your tame vermin, though.

[ikarsai]

I could not release tamed vermin for adoption. The cats killed them or dwarf put them back into empty traps. If I had no traps they did not remove them from the cage in case of unassign.