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[koruth]

I'm currently sitting on a massive caged collection of cats in various states of kitten and no-longer-kittenhood.  I'd slaughter the whole batch, but I like to keep at least one breeding pair in captivity in case the main breeders (chained up in their own chamber) die of old age or other Fun.  It'd be much easier to sort through them if I could tell what gender the animals are when they're caged (this is one reason why I usually dump a lot of embark stuff to bring cows: bull-cow identification!) and being able to issue slaughter commands right there would help cut down dangerous potential cat-adoption time.

The animal menu in stocks doesn't work too terribly well, since you can't tell which animals are caged, chained, or freely roaming from in there.  Issuing a slaughter command from there means you might end up getting one of your chained breeders if you don't pay a *terrible* amount of attention to chronological order.  Adding that stat to the stocks screen would also be a tremendous help in keeping masses of animals sorted.

Optionally, can we give nicknames to non-pet animals?  That'd help too.

I don't think this should be a terribly hard thing to code, it's a fairly small and mostly aesthetic change that'll help make animal management a lot more streamlined.

[thijser]

You could also trust that if the main 2 die that you can get one from an imigration.

[koruth]

Or just buy from a caravan, I know.

But sometimes I play low pop/dead civ games, or just have so many sieges/ambushes going on that immigration is shoddy and caravans aren't likely to get through.  And keeping backups and redundancies is a good practice in general.

[caknuck]

This makes sense.

While we're on the topic, can't the animals in both the units screen and the assign screen for chains/cages be sortable? Or at least sort them by species by default (instead of game object age)?

(fixed bad wikicode caused by posting this from my phone)

[ungulateman]

You can change the names of the gender castes so that males have different names from the females.

/solution

[koruth]

Not a complete solution: Would still have to let cats out of the bag and then issue the slaughter command once a dwarf lets them out, giving them precious seconds of time to latch on to a dwarf like a one-dwarfbuck lamprey hooker.  Seconds that we could reduce to *milliseconds* if the cage were next to the butchery, and it was only released for immediate slaughter.  And that's *if* the butcher isn't on break/drinking/faffing about.

(Yes, I know, non-pet-passable doors and airlock patterns, but they're not entirely fooldwarf proof, and hysterics make every discussion better.)

Also, I prefer to solve my problems without modding whenever possible.

_{<Edit>: cent? What is this cent? We know only of dwarfbuck!}