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Thanks for the replies.  It's not possible to do what I want, but it's fun to imagine anyway.

I was talking about how animals run from your dwarves and pets.  I doubt there is a way, but I was wondering if there was a way to make animals (not goblins and such) run from a building as if it was a pet of yours.

EDIT:  Though other effects would be interesting as well.

Since the ogre is tame, can you butcher them?

Easiest way to deal with a mandate ever:  Here you go Mr. Mayor, we've got you silver bucklers here in the butcher shop.   

I built stairs up about 11-z levels and 3 floor tiles going straight out from them. I built a cage with a fox in it, and placed a PIT zone next to it, and tried to pit, but when the dwarf pulled him out of cage, they got interrupted, and fox ran away... what am I doing wrong?

The fox escaped is all.  Every time you move a caged creature out of a cage it can escape.  I believe you need a strong dwarf to do the moving to minimize the escape chance.

Try surrounding the area with cage traps to at least recapture them easier.

I'm at 106/106 this year, last year I hadn't cut a tree, same for the year before that. They still call me butcher and demand limits to my massive deforestation. I did have some wood in my stockpile, I'm doing my best to empty it out now before the elves arrive to see if that makes a difference.

I believe that that message is the default.  It doesn't matter how much you have or have not cut, they always say that to you.

From what I remember it required a goblin running through doors, with pressure plates closing the doors at the right time, and channels around it.  The dwarves would fire bolts, which hit the closed doors and fell into the channel.  Below this was a smelter or more.  After a bunch of individual bolts were down below you mass-designate them all to be melted.  Each individual bolt would become a whole wafer (or whatever), which would then be made into a stack of bolts.  Repeat as desired.

Yes it made an unlimited supply of adamantine.  But, it was time consuming, especially since sooner or later you'd need to replace the goblin.

Engrave the room, and allow the different stones to be used to make furniture.  A native gold table/chair/chest/whatever is worth quite a lot.  I do this and a couple gem windows with 100+ value gems in 3x3 rooms, and get better than decent in such a small room.