The fort has been going well for the last 2 years, not a single incident or reason to make me save-scum since the time i dropped a miner down the well on accident and killed her (running a fort from a destroyed civ, losing a woman who has a boyfriend and may eventually marry in a fort where everyone is friends with everyone is a death sentence, and i intend to make this fort the centerpiece of a grand dwarven metropolis, and to boot the female-male ratio is 11-7, which doesn't bode well since all the men except the baby are now engaged.)
Suddenly, a litter of kittens was born, and the only female was instantly (read: instantly) adopted by my head craftsman. Not being able to put up with this i decided to kill it, or at least it's mother or father. I set up two separate traps, the first above the entrence leading to chaos in the refuse stockpile (no injuries, even to the kitten) and the second on the other side of the volcano. I then had to wade through half a dozen setbacks as i couldn't convince the dopes to walk into the trap and stay in it long enough for their cats to come along so i could send them off and leave the cats locked behind the door. They didn't want to go in, they wanted to stand around on the outside (not standing in the exact spot you designate should be optional tbh) Then, the kitten dropped a dead lizard right on the door, here goes another minute or so waiting for that to be cleaned and a cat to come back for another delivery. Then the idiots decided they forgot to pick up supplies even though I had never assigned them supplies, and I had to wait even longer. Eventually one of them was in the trap, with their cat (the adult female, to my joyous surprise) and there was nothing wrong with the door. I gave the order to leave and he barely left in time to actually trap the cat behind him. I then dropped a load of bricks on the little demon and the crisis was averted.
Beyond that, my head smith had another child, bringing our population up to 18, with only 16 workers. I also managed to crush a fishwoman blowgunner under a rock and injure another two with a second hit from a constructed wall. The catapult has done literally nothing to them but give them a nice gentle breeze at head height.