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[Conor891]

A large amount of my dwarves like Reindeer and I want to put the one I have in the dining hall so they can admire it.

The only issue is that its tamed, and the wiki says tamed grazing animals will eventually starve if left in cages.

Is there any command I can use in Dfhack to fix this? I've been looking for a way to maybe have its status changed from Tamed to Wild Animal but I can't seem to find anything

[PatrikLundell]

My recent experience with elk birds is that they are actually fed by dwarves when caged or chained, but not when "free". I had elk birds in a cage for a couple of years and then decided to try to breed them, so I pastured them and placed a nest box in the pasture. After a while the females started to starve, so I hauled her to a cage, she got fed, and I had her brought back to the pasture, where the eggs hatched. For the second batch I chained her instead, and that worked without any interventions.

Thus, my guess is that that wiki info might be outdated.

It's easy to use gui/gm-editor to change the taming level indicator (I use that method to change gremlins to fully tame when they become citizens to work around bugged retraining). There's probably no ready made command to change the taming level, though.

In your case I'd try to cage the reindeer and keep an eye on it. If it starves, pasture it again to let it recover, but my guess is that dwarves will feed it (and probably get happy thoughts about giving food to somebody as a bonus).

[Rafatio]

As a low-tech solution: Any chance you could take the dwarves to the reindeer if the other way around doesn't work out? A meeting area on the pasture? Too bad its tame, caged semi-wild elephants worked very nicely.