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[krige]

Having a cage with several stray dogs in it, I've opened the item 't' menu, highlited the cage and pressed enter. A list of dogs in it appeared but when I select any of them, a dwarf-like (but blank) screen appears from which I can go to animal's "thoguhts an preferences" by pressing y. It always shows as "has been content lately."

I've did it several times - when I get cages in my new fortress I might record a movie with the whole process.

[Toady One]

Yeah, it shouldn't let you view their profiles, since they don't have profiles.  I'll set up a report.

[krige]

After some more experiments, it turns out that this occurs only for stray dogs and puppies. Wild animals (at least the small ones) aren't viewable this way.

[Genuine]

As far as animals are concerned, I've seen a related bug that's probably been mentioned already, but I haven't seen it reported yet. Occasionally a war dog will become badly injured while fighting and go into a rage. When the dog comes out of the rage, it is often "permanently depressed" so to speak, and always has the red down-arrow as it moves about the fortress.

Edit: This was on an older version, and I've yet to see it happen on the new one. However, I haven't seen anything about it in the bug fixes, so I figured I'd report it.

[ November 22, 2006: Message edited by: Genuine ]

[Toady One]

Ah, maybe that's a lead on why there was a fire imp that went crazy once, and a miserable zombie alligator...  though the undead probably don't rage, unless that's a bug too.

[Griz]

I had a horse in my last fortress that took some yellow wounds that never healed and had a permanent "very unhappy" state.

[Misterstone]

I played a map full of zombie elephants recently on the latest version, and noticed at lest a few who had the "miserable" marker in their wounds screen.  I just chuckled and assumed this was normal... I mean, it would suck to be a zombie, right?

No doubt if you were to play a map with a high evil setting and lots of animals you would find many zombies with this problem.

Also, I wonder if it has to do with organ damage or something, since the zombies had several organs in the brown...

[Toady One]

I think it just ended up being something bizarre in the creature init -- "if you are undead, don't init the happiness variable".  I'm sure I had the best intentions in mind, but that was kinda strange.  It's fixed now in any case.