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They stick to the grating. I have a shower set up in my main hallway that every dwarf walks through at least twice a month (it's between the bedrooms and the dining hall, with no way around), and the grates are covered with the blood of everything that has ever bled in this fortress. Sadly, dfcleanmap won't get rid of them, I suppose because it's either not a solid surface or they're all considered "pools",

1. (d)-(b)-(d), select the cage(s) you want to strip down. Then hit (k) and remove the dump order from the cage itself.
2. (i) for zone, pit it over an open space and press (p) to make it a pit/pond. Hit P to select creatures to throw into it. For items, make a garbage dump zone next to an open space, and designate the items for dumping.
3. Some animals can be trained for war besides dogs. However, some animals cannot be trained at all, and some require a Dungeon Master, who currently shows up very rarely if at all. I believe there is a third-party program that makes all animals trainable.
4. No.
5. There is no foolproof way, however I usually keep most of my animals caged, and anywhere I don't want animals going (such as my danger room) get at least 3 consecutive doors.
6. Hospitals are buggy right now, but there are a few things you can do to make it work.

• Build containers, either bags or coffers, to contain hospital items within the hospital zone. You'll need quite a few (I use at least 25).
• Make sure there is a nearby source of water, either a well or a cistern, to use for cleaning and watering dwarves.
• Don't use gypsum powder casts; there is a bug causing the bone doctor to freeze up at the well making the cast for all time. Use splints instead.
• Traction tables are also a bad idea, as are tables in general. Anything doctors can do on a table can be done with the dwarf in bed.
• Keep your doctors nearby and not busy. Burrows help with this.

7. No. I believe Animal Care will be used for veterinary purposes in the future but for now if your animals get hurt, they're on their own.
8. Dwarves will ignore messes outside their fortress that aren't on constructed or smooth floors. Another third-party tool, dfcleanmap, is available as part of the DFHack toolkit. Check the modding section.
9. Not that I know of. Never had to deal with a FB using anything nastier than spittle.
10. The item will be listed among your artifacts in blue lettering, and the dwarf who named it will prefer to use it over anything else. Destroying the item will give that dwarf a bad thought. Nothing else.

However, bridges do not support construction, even though the game thinks they do when planning the constructions. So just the supports underneath holding it up. The bridges were, up, I assume, to hold all the occupants in.

Anything that didn't come with the goblins (and some that did) will enter combat with them. I often have discovered kobold thieves tip me off to goblin ambushes. The kobold usually gets murdered then.

I believe that animal health problems are planned to be taken care of by the Animal Care skill, which to my knowledge currently has no use.

I temporarily had a blind jeweler and surgeon once. While it had practically no effect whatsoever on their professional life, imagining the result was hilarious.

Jeweler sitting with a friend in the workshop.

*chink*
"Is it done yet?"
"...Nope."
*chink*
"How about now?"
"...Nope."
*chink*
"How's this then?"
"...Nope."
*chink*

The embark screen names them "cave fish" but there are several distinct kinds; take a look at the food you have when you actually embark, and it'll show what breed of fish you got.

Other warning messages like that are common but not a problem, such as your chosen civ not having a certain type of wood or meat.

Pumps work just fine for draining part of a river; I usually just divert the water a few tiles downstream to make room for the floodgates. As soon as the riverbed is clear the dwarves will fetch it up, if you have a tomb or a graveyard stockpile set up.