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[Kaelem Gaen]

I might not have searched enough and I apologize, and I know people want to game UI to be less confusing, but I think it would be nice if we can [v]iew the animals on the Pet/Slaughter/Animal list,  from the list  (Aka see the description.)  this way if you do animal Eugenics selective breeding, you can put to rest the lesser cattle, or slaughter the biggest/beefiest Bull/Cow/Dog/Cat/Wolf in your animal stocks.

By which I mean,  you go to the animal page in z then hit v while selecting the animal you want to slaughter/make pet, and it takes you to a desc page of said animal.

[Lord Shonus]

If you're doing selective breeding, just allow your dwarves to adopt the ones you want to breed.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Or use the v menu.

[Kaelem Gaen]

Dwarves don't always adopt, and I'm mainly looking from the slaughter perspective, when you set them to be slaughtered the order in the U list or the V-list in the cage is not the order they're in on the Slaughter list,  I think it's something like  the order they arrived to the fortress in, which is a pain to remember, I mean sure you can do "set this animal to be slaughtered" but I think that only works when they're outside a cage.

Anyways that was my idea, I apologize if I didn't clear it up more, or made it more confusing

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Have you considered pitting the animals instead of caging them?

[Draco18s]

Have you considered nicknames?

[Rowanas]

Nicknames get annoying really quickly when livestock is your main source of income/food/defence.

[Draco18s]

Nicknames get annoying really quickly when livestock is your main source of income/food/defence.

All you have to do is nick the ones your KEEPING.  Once you do that it should be pretty obvious what happens to the rest.

[Rowanas]

Nicknames get annoying really quickly when livestock is your main source of income/food/defence.

All you have to do is nick the ones your KEEPING.  Once you do that it should be pretty obvious what happens to the rest.

I refer you back to what I just said.

Nicknames get annoying really quickly when livestock is your main source of income/food/defence.

[Draco18s]

Or you could not worry about breeding programs, I suppose.

Remember, that's player-induced-difficulty. :|

[TheyTarget]

I chain, one male in the male hall, then 4-6 females in the war pen, and butcher pens. It's a pain to figure out which ones to chain, but after I get that down, I butcher/train/cage every other animal in the fort. Would love to see the system reworked. It's a pain. I don't care how they do it, as long as it works.

[Rowanas]

Until selective breeding is made easier, I just slaughter everything except for some cows, some horses and whatever my best warbeast is at the time.

[Lord Shonus]

Dwarves don't always adopt, and I'm mainly looking from the slaughter perspective, when you set them to be slaughtered the order in the U list or the V-list in the cage is not the order they're in on the Slaughter list,  I think it's something like  the order they arrived to the fortress in, which is a pain to remember, I mean sure you can do "set this animal to be slaughtered" but I think that only works when they're outside a cage.

Anyways that was my idea, I apologize if I didn't clear it up more, or made it more confusing

A adopted pet will be named, and one that is not adopted, but has adoption allowed, will still be marked as such in the z-menu (which is the fastest and easiest way to slaughter them). Thus, you will easily be able to tell.

[Aspgren]

Anything that helps breeding is welcome in my book. :/

Immigrants bring tame cows all the time so the gene pool is infected .. and the animals I trapped risk spore-impregnation because there are wild ones about .. and the animals that the elves bring me.. well I can't exactly be selective with them. If they only have skinny diarrhea-prone gorillas then that's what I'm breeding.

A troublesome animal menu almost tips the boat. I think OP has a great idea in simplifying it!

[Emiteal]

My meat industry is one of my two biggest problems at the moment, for reasons the OP stated. I just want two things: to be able to sort my animals so I can tell how many I have of each, and to be able to easily view their attributes and assign them for slaughter.

A pet system is not helpful because eventually I may want to slaughter some of my stock as the offspring are born with better traits without losing my fort due to tantrum spiral. A nickname system is doable. Since I hadn't thought to try that yet, I'll give it a go on my next fort and see how feasible I find it. Unfortunately, this will end up with a lot of animals having nicknames like "Enormous Fat Brown." 

There actually was some discussion on reddit and someone said he was going to make a utility that would streamline the whole sort-your-animals-and-slaughter-them deal. I don't know if he did. I know Runesmith has the capability to do most of what's needed, but it's not designed for that and is rather unwieldy for this purpose.

Breeding may be a "player-induced difficulty" but the meat industry itself is well-established, and something that makes it easier to slaughter the animals you intend to slaughter is reasonable, imo.