I like to have lots of hunting and war dogs assigned to my hunters, woodcutters and marksdwarves,
(why, you ask? That's why:)(Why, you ask? That's why:
but setting their ownership is a pain in the bottombackpart because there's three screens you have to look at to
a) figure out what dwarves already have animals assigned to them;
b) pick a dwarf to assign an animal; and
c) actually assign the animal while already remembering if that fifteenth Urist McFancysurename you look at doesn't already owns work animals.
So, I was thinking about if it would be possible to have DF Therapist to handle this. That's the ways I envision:
It could be done in the "Animals" tab, by placing a dropdown button to each animal that is "pet-able", with which you would pick the dwarf that is to own it;
It could be on a new grid view that lists all dwarves, showing if they already have animals assigned to them and what are those animals and with dropdown buttons for each listed dwarf to pick a new animal from those available (preferable way, as it is less cumbersome to pick an animal for a dwarf than to pick a dwarf for an animal, specially in large fortresses, with the bonus of having a clear way to see if the target dwarf already have an animal assigned to him in a clear and easy way);
It also could be done via scripts, I guess (I'm an idiot about scripts and general programming language, I'm sorry), by sorting out all dwarves that are assigned as hunters/woodcutters/marksdwarves/any-other-profession-you-want-to-give-a-dog-to and do not have any work animals assigned to them, assigning to them a configurable number of hunting/war dogs/lions/wolves/bears/dragons/megabeasts/titans/whatevs (less work-to-be-done way, I guess);
Anyway, that's my suggestion, I hope it can be done, if it's not much to ask. And thanks for maintaining this wondrous tool that is Dwarf Therapist.
Edit: I completely forgot to search before posting, so if that's a repeated request, I'm so sorry.