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*UPDATE*
While I was pondering I've noticed some job cancellations - interrupted by forgotten beast. Luckily it did not run away, rather it was stuck inside the corridor that was supposed to be flooded, but the water level dropped to 2/7, so some hunters decided to make it a target practice, and since they were all standing in the water, the toad was powerless. And soon enough it was dead. 
Thanks for the trap idea thou

Hi,
I've just made perfectly the same design as is described in this Wikipedia article http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Giant_cave_spider to farm GCS silk.
For some reason - it does not work.
This is my design:

Now, I've tried dropping there a goblin thief, and now troglodyte and still it does not want to fire.
Honestly, I don't know how this GCS came into my fortress. I have a lot of traps in the cavern beneath (not just a single row) and maybe it could be from caravans. Anyway - with a hostile creature any GCS should start fireing, right?
Is it possible for animals to calm down?
I don't know - what am I doing wrong here.

Will do
Now what about other were-beast attacks? What about claws for example, maybe it ripped it off using claws?!? I don't remember any notification of him being bitten.

You might have the first documented survivor of a were-bite EVER (well in terms of the dwarf not getting infected, in my fortress being a werewolf is a death sentence)  . Congrats.

Now that you say it like that, I do feel a bit sad for wanting this fortress to be destoryed for being very boring... hmmm... Now when you mentioned it... what did happen to that arm... As I recall, it was dragged to the refuse pile. After some time, I was not able to find it... I should check if there are some +dwarven upper arm bone bolts+ laying around (if marksmen did not already shoot them away)

Thanks anyway... I've decided after all not to risk any loose cave cravlers to link separate cages to one lever and then to deliver some nice presents.
Oh, yes, I've almost forgot, in case they suceed in killing all my presents, I'll pump in 7/7 water, and after few minutes I'll pull the drain

well... if I am supposed to link cage by cage with a lever, it would take some time... i thought about some quicker way... do cave crawlers and elephants escape when I move them from one cage to another?

Too bad I've read this just now (about the combat log). I've had one of my dwarfs chopping woods outside, and all of the sudden a werehyena appears close to him. I write him off as one of the necessery casualties to save the rest of the fort. While I was appointing everyone to the burrows I did not notice that this dwarf (although he was partially in his civilian clothing) survived for a few moments. Then I've checked his equipment and noticed that he was one of the lucky ones that had the adamantine battle axe. Well... few swings over this beast and the hyena was dead... BUT... my dwarf was wounded... And might I add, he was the only Great warior at that time... well, good thing you can wield battle axe with only one hand cos he was missing the entire left arm.
Anyways... I bring him to my fort, and marked my self one month to build him some confy secluded room. It was simmilar in design like my vamp room, but this time he had to have some food and drinks. Well... one month passed, nothing yet. Two months and BOOM - but not him - another were heyena outside. This time he ran away. Good thing is that he did not notice my king who was stralling outside about 30 blocks away from him. Well.. either that or he saw my Vamp squad of 7 gaining on him (good armor and adamantine weapons). BUT my one-armed dwarf was still there in his room - he did not change, and he still had a missing arm.

Do you think that I can now safelly assume that he was not bitten (maybe hyena scratched him so hard, his arm fell off)?