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[Stormfeather]

Pretty much what it says in the topic - I caught a bunch of beak dogs in cage traps during the latest goblin siege at my fort. Since I love training and breeding animals (to the point where FPS and I aren't on speaking terms probably), I had thought to build one of my nest box pastures (since I'm not sure how beak dogs breed), and chain 2 males and 2 females around each box, hoping they might breed, then I could train the young and do whatever (re-cage, just kill) the untameable adults.

While I actually chained the first male, however, without problems, even once it was chained it just scared all my dwarfs and interrupted all their tasks. I had THOUGHT that chained hostiles didn't do any interruptions/scare the citizens of the fort, I seemed to remember things like goblins being chained in peoples' dining rooms and such. Am I wrong?

Only other thing I can think of is to build some of the cages in the pasture zone, attach them all to a lever outside, lock the doors, wait to see if they breed, then if they do build a bunch of cage traps outside and open the doors, let them all get trapped, and train the young. Anyone know if this would even have a chance of working however? Not sure if hostiles would breed like this, not sure if beak dogs even can breed, or if they'd be for some reason untameable (the wiki suggests they can't be tamed, but that could be a holdover from older versions)... any input?

Edit: in retrospect, the question shifted a bit so I'm changing the title of the post slightly.

[PatrikLundell]

Yes, chained enemies still scare civilians (including the ones who just chained them). I think people having enemies on display keep them in cages. Also, I think people like caravan guards can attack enemies on chains and en route while hauled.

I believe beak dogs are birds (sort of), and thus lay eggs, and I don't think untamed critters claim nest boxes (elk birds didn't when I tried to place some in the caverns, nor did wild birds on the surface).
As stated, beak dogs are untameable due to their evil nature (or something). There are a number of cavern critters who can't be tamed either. If the adults cannot be trained then the young can't be either. In your case this is on top of the fact that the parents to be are enemies of your nation, but I doubt you'd get better result with wild captured beak dogs (It's probably very easy to change the raws to make them exotic pets, but then we're in modding territory).

[Stormfeather]

Ah, darnit. Thanks for the response. And my FPS thanks you as well.