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No, you put all unwanted animals into a cage and link it to a pressure plate or lever. An enemy steps on the pressure plate and releases all the animals, which proceed to maul him.

I find it a little ironic that this solution is suggested by a guy named "Lagslayer." Your FPS is gonna go straight back in the gutter when that cage opens. Otherwise it's a fun trap.

Build a cage. Assign all the cubs & puppies to it.

If you haven't yet, use "train war dog" at a kennel to turn all your grizzlies into war grizzlies (yes, it works, I promise).

Build chains and assign your war grizzlies and war dogs to them.

Butcher the black bears and devour them/turn them into leather- they can't become war animals.

As the cubs & pups mature (become adult grizzlies & dogs), release them long enough to train them then either chain them or put them back in the cage until you need them somewhere.

I would save them if possible both to get better animals next year and because I hate cleaning up all the wood piccolos

Seconded on both counts. Unless you're full up on giant scorpions and war grizzlies, keep the skinny bastards happy so they bring you more animals next year.

Damnit now they're breeding!

You are not invading my lands, underwater capys! This is war!

I have a rooster who sits in my meeting zone and randomly attacks... everything. Hens, dogs, idling dwarves... Nothing is ever killed by it, but lots of things get injured- bruises and such.

In my last fort it was an injured wolf that did the same thing- sat in the meeting zone and randomly attacked.

So what gives? Why are they attacking?

Digging a shaft, building cages, assigning things to pit, and cleaning up the mess aren't time consuming?

Hunting is set-it-and-forget-it. My hunters just go do their own thing and bring back meat (while also getting rid of animals on the map that may be harmful- even the ones in the deepest caves). The forbidden bolts scattered about seem to be the only major drawback, IMO. And it's a lot slower than sending in the military to take out the pack of crundles, rutherers, elk birds, etc.

When it comes down to it- hunters are badasses that stalk and kill things. Traps are the weak sauce approach.

Fixed!

After trying a few dozen different things and a few years hunters doing nothing, I finally found a solution and I'm happy to report I have hunters hunting again.

I unforbid all the ammo on the map. A short while later my hunters picked up their equipment (single bolts, not stacks) and got back to work.

This is in spite of the hundreds of stacks of bolts in stockpiles (that the military would make use of). It was the hundreds of forbidden spent bolts laying all over the map (from sieges and years of hunting) that kept the hunters from hunting.

Really frustrating. I guess that's what I get for trying to take the lazy way and not reclaiming the spent ammo. I think I'll dump all the single bolts in magma so that the hunters are forced to use the stacks.

Update: and after shooting a few single bolts, now they're picking up fresh stacks of newly made bolts. so weird...

I know cabinets can store clothes, but I still don't see the need.  The active set is on the dwarf.  If they claim new clothes, why do they want to keep the old set?

No idea, but they do. Lots of my dwarves have a cabinet full of extra clothes in their bedrooms. If they don't have a cabinet they just leave the clothes all around the fort.

My military dwarves don't store their items in cabinets- likely because they're always on duty.