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[Keilden]

One of my current forts has a strange cave swallow, when I made a pit and picked what pets to dump in it the tame cave swallow shoved up. Since I haven't tamed anyone I tried to find him on the U list and pet list, but he was no where to be found. I later found him flying around outside so he exists, but the only list he can be found on is the Pit list.

[praguepride]

Did you accidentally buy him when you bought a cage from elves? Also, if he's someone's pet he'll be named, so check the "named pet" list

[Keilden]

No name, and the only thing I bought from the elfs was some plants and seed. But during the trade a kobold thief made the elfs run away a bit then go back, so maybe one of them had a tame cave swallow and dropped it? Can traders have tame pets? And I don't mean those half dead creatures they sell in cages.

[Drakis]

i got a similar thing happen, im not sure what caused it to happen, but i know it likely has to do with the fact that i play with a modded player race.   when i got my second migrant wave, it came with a tame giant rat pup, a tame large rat pup, and a tame GIANT CAVE SPIDER!!!

i nearly died with glee at that!


i got the GCS chained to my entrance to guard against thieves now.

[SnorriMabdugkosak]

I have no animal traps or cage traps out, but I also have had many tame bats, tame swallows, tame blue jays, tame hedgehogs, tame everythings, even a tame fluffy wambler once show up in cages on my stockpile. I think it's indeed related to the elves because no race dies more often near my forts than elves. Purely accidental, of course. Some of the time I have no idea where these tame creatures in the list are, but they also show up in cages I 'liberated' from the elves, and only then, never other cages. So they have them in cages but I don't remember ever having seen them show up in the trading screen. You can also make them available but I never saw anyone taking one as a pet. Much to the delight of my cat, who kills many tame unbutcherables as soon as I dump them from the cage.

Elves are so weird. They freak out when you offer them something made of animal or wood, but they sell wooden crafts themselves and obviously like to put small defenseless and useless creatures in cages.

[Keilden]

I noticed that they put small animals into cages but don't name the cage Cave Swallow Cage or whatever they put into the cage.