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[Shazial]

Things have been calm in the Heavymire of Practising. Booze flows, trading's good, the King moved in and is surprisingly benevolent, there is a horse and its foal growing on a tree...

Wait, what?

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Stuckos Asteshoshosh is a very confused dwarf, because his pet is starving, and apparently has somehow ended up on a tree, and given birth up there. Now Stuckos Asteshoshosh is trying to figure out a way to get the horse down without killing it or its foal.

Ideas?

[SixOfSpades]

Build ramps & assign them to a ground-level pasture. As far as batshit-crazy dwarf problems go, this seems an easy fix.

[Staalo]

Just cut down the tree. With any luck both should escape unharmed or with mild bruises.

I once saw a similarly stuck elephant which apparently had stood on a sapling when it grew into a full-sized tree. I sent in a lumberjack and the situation resolved into three logs and one terrified but healthy elephant.

[Col_Jessep]

In one of captain_duck's videos his only anvil ended up on a tree shortly after embark. He cut down the tree and hilarity ensued.
This is my favorite DF video:

http://youtu.be/3dxqTZbNYg4?t=33m59s

It's only 5 minutes, check it out. =D

[CaptainLambcake]

cut it down man, take a risk, it's dead otherwise

[Naryar]

I once saw a similarly stuck elephant which apparently had stood on a sapling when it grew into a full-sized tree. I sent in a lumberjack and the situation resolved into three logs and one terrified but healthy elephant.

This is why I love this game.

[The Bard]

I've had to cut down melee soldiers who got too enthusiastic about kea-punching and ended up 4 Z-levels above the ground. They didn't even get stunned, so tree-felling seems to be a 'soft' fall as long as they don't land on someone else.

[Max™]

...or as long as an anvil doesn't kill a water buffalo in a reanimating biome...

[Aslandus]

I've had cases of tree horses before, you could build a staircase or ramp, but chopping the tree is much easier... that said, if you place all your pastures under existing trees you're less likely to end up with horses getting popped into trees by standing on saplings, but where's the fun in that?

[Shazial]

This was the first time I had seen a horse on a tree so I was really curious as to how it could've happened.. Cutting down the tree or building a ramp also are the easiest ways to handle the situation, however I was interested to see if there were any creative ways to go with it, since my embarkment site is very peaceful and there's not much "fun" going around.. so I might as well create some of my own. >.>

Standing on a sapling sounds like the most possible situation to cause this horse to get up there. I only noticed it when the "Animal inaccessible" spam started. x.x

I've had similar situations in an earlier fortress when the climbing skill was introduced. However, back then it was mostly due to my own noobishness: I didn't assign a meeting zone, so all the kids ran outside, started climbing trees, got stuck up in the trees.. then their bodies rained down on the unsuspecting dwarves below when the tree was felled or they otherwise somehow fell. It was.. pretty interesting to watch one dwarf have the corpse of his missing son fall ontop of him, make him injured and then go berserk and start a tantrum spiral that was the downfall of that fortress.

[Thisfox]

Stepladders might help with this problem, you know. Or make it worse.

I've had a dwarf use a stepladder to go up to get fruit from the second level of the tree. While he was there, he saw a ghost and bolted along a branch. Another dwarf, it appears, then went to the fruit picking area and said "ooh, how useful, a stepladder", and used it. At which point I had the equivalent of "Oi! Who stole my bloody ladder?" happening in the tree.... He eventually saw the ghost a second time, and fell out of the tree, then wandered home, several months later, perfectly okay.

[Max™]

...I immediately pictured a horse on a stepladder, why do you do these things to me?

[Thisfox]

(Getting the horse on the stepladder is the easy bit. Getting the horse to put the stepladder away afterwards... that's a problem...)

I'm not targetting you, my dear, I'm just firing flippant remarks and anecdotes into the world and you're walking into the line of fire.