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[SixOfSpades]

I tend to be a bit sentimental about my dwarves' pets: Each one gets a (admittedly shabby) coffin in its owner's bedroom. But when one of Cog the cat lady's beloved kitties kicked the bucket, naturally there's nowhere near enough room in her quarters for 9 coffins, so an alternate system must be employed. I decided that the fortress's cats would be interred in a large ring surrounding the necropolis. I built the first cat-coffin, set it up to recieve pets, unforbade the kitty's corpse, and watched as the body was carried . . . to the refuse stockpile.

I can get the dwarves to carry the cat from one refuse stockpile to another (which ever one has corpses enabled), I can get them to Dump it, I can get them to do anything except put the damn thing in the coffin. I even built 2 other coffins (one in Cog's bedroom, another by the necropolis), to no effect.

All the other deceased pets are comfortably resting in coffins, and I did nothing different, so what gives? The only thing I can think of is that this pet was likely "created" (adopted) on-site, as opposed to being brought in by a migrant, and therefore might lack the proper "pet" flag that allows burial. Is this a known behavior?

[Deepblade]

Are you sure it adopted her and wasn't birthed by a female she owned and followed it around?

[LaikaBauss]

Hey...

Im not exactly sure bout your case...

However, sometimes when stuff ( workshops, coffins and stuff ) don't work i usually just rebuild them.

Also, its a bit complicated to put creatures on coffins AFTER they're dead. I know its possible to assign coffins to creatures and such, you could try doing that next time.

You can do that coffin stuff until your pets get atom smashed, inaccecible or chopped up. It can be quite fun to recover some bodies.

A good option is to create a memorial instead. If you feel like it, of course.

GL

[Witty]

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=790

It appears this is a known bug.

[Larix]

I accidentally ended up doing some testing on the issue and i think i know what's going on:

The pet burial code doesn't check whether a dead creature was somebody's pet, but rather if it was set to 'allowed' in the animal list. All 'allowed' creatures, adopted or not, get stuffed into coffins. All creatures which weren't are thrown on the refuse pile and will not get buried. This notably affects cats which adopted a dwarf while on the site (cats who already immigrated as someone's pet may work properly) and work animals assigned to individual dwarfs. You can work around the second case by setting your dogs/grizzly bears etc. to 'allowed' before training them. This makes them susceptible to spontaneous adoption by random dwarfs and enables them all for burial, regardless of whether they were assigned to a dwarf or not.

I have a huge cavy burial site in one fort (~70 coffins full of 'allowed' but never adopted stray cavies) and a few successfully buried war dogs; and i'm not aware of a single fort-born pet cat or non-allowed war/hunting animal which got buried. So i'm pretty sure my assessment of what's going on is accurate.

On the whole, just keeping track of cats and assigned war animals and disposing of their corpses once they die (via atomsmashing, dumping them into magma or a deep pit...) is a lot easier than making your war animals bury-able.

[wierd]

Cog the catlady needs to be freed from her opressive psychic burdens.

Spoiler: The following has been rated D, for Dwarf (click to show/hide)

Kittycat mind control is clearly a quantum entanglement phenomenon: it is only noticed when observed.  Thus, to successfully remove the mind control without destroying the dwarf in the process, you must create the schrodinger's atom smasher.  This is a mysterious box, into which you pen said kitties, and close all methods of observation. A lever, which for all the dwarf pulling it knows, may or may not trigger a bridge which may or may not squash the penned kitties inside into oblivion. As far as the cat lady is concerned, the cats then simultaneously exist, and cease to exist, relieving the poor soul of all negative effects of kitty cat possession, while simultaneously rendering said felines into a nonprocreative state.

If at any time the bridge is witnessed in the act of mooshing, then the quantum oblivion superposition that the cats are placed in is decomposed, and instantaneous madness of the afflicted dwarf is almost certainly assured.  It is vital, therefor, that the actual state of the cats never be known, and the superposition maintained.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Cog the catlady needs to be freed from her opressive psychic burdens.

Spoiler: The following has been rated D, for Dwarf (click to show/hide)

Kittycat mind control is clearly a quantum entanglement phenomenon: it is only noticed when observed.  Thus, to successfully remove the mind control without destroying the dwarf in the process, you must create the schrodinger's atom smasher.  This is a mysterious box, into which you pen said kitties, and close all methods of observation. A lever, which for all the dwarf pulling it knows, may or may not trigger a bridge which may or may not squash the penned kitties inside into oblivion. As far as the cat lady is concerned, the cats then simultaneously exist, and cease to exist, relieving the poor soul of all negative effects of kitty cat possession, while simultaneously rendering said felines into a nonprocreative state.

If at any time the bridge is witnessed in the act of mooshing, then the quantum oblivion superposition that the cats are placed in is decomposed, and instantaneous madness of the afflicted dwarf is almost certainly assured.  It is vital, therefor, that the actual state of the cats never be known, and the superposition maintained.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Why does this need a spoiler? Anyways, the cats will observe each other, so you need to have only one cat per smasher, or smash them one at a time.

[wierd]

I spoilerized it because of the degree of silliness I injected.

Personal experiments of mine have suggested that crowding many cats onto a single tile beneath the smasher, results in simultaneous smashing, and frequently prevents them from reporting the deaths of their conspirators. The smasher can be bigger than 1 tile, but the pen/pasture you assign them to needs to be a single tile. It isn't 100% effective, but it works much more often than not. I once smashed 60 cats this way, in groups of 10 or so, with only 3 being reported as actually dead.

[SixOfSpades]

The pet burial code doesn't check whether a dead creature was somebody's pet, but rather if it was set to 'allowed' in the animal list.

If there's anything wrong with this analysis, I don't seem to be able to find it. So it appears I'll be atom-smashing all the adopted cats after they die . . . heck, I might as well eventually smash all the pet corpses, and reclaim those coffins for the dwarves.