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[Neruz]

Is this a good idea?

[whiterook6]

Yes. Slaughter enough of them to keep you alive till you can trade some for more useful tools.

Or burn them in lava. I'm not picky.

[Michaelsoftman]

Sure, you can use them for defense and for food.

You should try embarking with 60 cats next time!

[Neruz]

Heh; i'm doing a no-anvil embark (since i should be able to trade for one) and had nothing better to spend the 1k points on

[Okenido]

Booze.

[Neruz]

pfft, one decent brewer and grower with a 5 x 5 plot dedicated to plump helmets can generate enough booze to keep a 100 strong fort supplied indefinitely

[Albedo]

Embarking With 60 Dogs...

Is this a good idea?

Just watch where you step.

I'd buy a couple less and invest in some hard-to-find ores that will cover possible moods, like cassiterite (tin for bronze), bismuthinite (bismuth bronze), and sphalerite (nickel), but you could do worse.

Choose which dwarf(s) will be outdoors all the time (woodcutter, masons, maybe architects) and train them up as animal trainers - if the dogs are trained by them they will follow them until formally assigned to someone else.

[Neruz]

Eh, i could invest in hard to find ores for moods; but it's more fun to try and find the ores yourself and to cage the offending dorf if finding the ores proves impossible.

[Leafsnail]

My dogs bred fairly fast, and I usually purchase more from caravans.  My standing army of 41 war dogs (some chained up around the entrance, one or two assigned to military, a few standing around the glassworks where a glassmaker went beserk... weird).

[Tormy]

Sure, you can use them for defense and for food.

You should try embarking with 60 cats next time!

Well I don't know...
60 dogs = food & defense
60 cats = food & 

[Foa]

Sure, you can use them for defense and for food.

You should try embarking with 60 cats next time!

Cats are no good, by research done by Toad Listeners, we have learned that dogs are a more efficient source of butchered goods, and they can help around with stealth detection, and cats just lag spam you to death, and can't be butchered.

So:
60 Cats = Food + Lag + Misery

[Leafsnail]

2 cats might be good though.  Vermin control can help a bit.

[Vilien]

I have never had trouble with vermin control. I have had trouble with cat control.

[Leafsnail]

I hit the opposite problem.  You see, I had heard about the catsplosion, so gleefully butchered all my cats, till I had only one left.  This meant I had vermin everywhere, in addition to cave sickness and swarms of flies.  I decided it was best to eliminate at least the first factor.

[Elliott_Thinas]

My dogs bred fairly fast, and I usually purchase more from caravans.  My standing army of 41 war dogs (some chained up around the entrance, one or two assigned to military, a few standing around the glassworks where a glassmaker went beserk... weird).

The glassmaker might have had war dogs assigned to him and when he went berserk he was taken down by his own dogs in a tragic and heartbreaking battle. War dogs with fallen masters always keep a vigil at the place their master died.