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No, .25.  I'll try checking refuse orders (they are above ground) and if that fails, I'll try building them first, though that seems silly, i.e. it ought not take that many (undocumented) steps to do this. :-)

Nothing's ever simple, is it?  I go select my militia commander to give him a bad ass pet for his months of exemplary service training my dorfs.  Uh, yeah, there are 7 war animals available.  And since there's no way to select a specific one, nor any way to unassign a war animal after assigning it, it's pretty much a crap shoot who's going to get the bear.  That sucks.

I have the solution, it does not have anything to do with the RAW files. Just remove the animal you want to train from the Pen/Pesture zone, and it should be trainable, worked for me

Woot!  Newbies helping newbies for the win!  This was perfect.  Thanks very much.  I now have a sweet War Bear. 

Better to assign him to a marksdwarf or an infantrydwarf, I wonder?

The wiki claims that in .25 grizzly bears can be trained as war bears at a kennel.  I just bought a caged grizzly from some pointy-eared types which they say is tame.  But Train War Animal at the kennel came up empty. 

Can someone link to a primer on checking/editing the raws, or is there another explanation than [TRAINABLE:]?

OK, here's something weird.  There are a few seeds inside a few of them.  Besides being a little weirded out not know how the hell those got in there, I'm also concerned that this is keeping them from being used to re-arm my cage traps.  How can I clean them out?

But at this point there's nothing in the cages.  Would an animal stockpile still be the thing?

Everything was going pretty well, but now I've hit a VERY frustrating wall where things have basically stopped working well and I have NO idea why.  My last set of migrants bumped me up to 74 dwarfs, so I understand there'll probably be a fair number of idlers.  But what's amazing and maddening is that I have so many idle workshops now.  I've been unable to coax a metalsmith (to make a cage) or a weaponsmith (to make crossbows) into my metalworking forge for what seems like almost a year.  I have legendary craftsmen who now sit in the dining area -- or in a random, non-bed square in their bedrooms -- for hours it seems like with No Job.  I use Therapist.  I'm looking at a guy with only two labors enabled, period: Weaponsmithing and Furnace Operating.  There are copper bars in my stock.  There are charcoal bars.  There's a forge with four Forge Copper Crossbow jobs queued up.  And he sits there in the dining room.  Not eating.  Not drinking.  Not attending a party.  Just sitting.  He's happy.  I'm not.

Any idea what I could have done to so fuck up my fort in the space of an afternoon?  I like a challenge, but not one that just feels like a malfunction with no clues how to troubleshoot it.

Yeah, in my experience (limited, only a bit more than you) it's not worth trying to sell most raw materials.  The merchant caravans can only haul so much stuff, and ore and wood is largely too heavy.  I find that Lavish Prepared Meals are a pretty effective trade good, along with the other crafts.  I haven't gotten to the point yet of being able to buy entire caravans, but I'm getting better.