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utunnels

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work dogs
« on: August 08, 2007, 04:03:00 am »
How to remove dogs from a dwarf? I have a carpenter who has 4 war dogs, and now they have tens of puppies. lol

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Ravendas

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Re: work dogs
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2007, 10:09:00 am »
I'm pretty sure once you assign dogs to a dwarf, its impossible to unassign them. Kinda silly and annoying.

As for the puppies, when they grow up you can train them as wardogs, and they will stop following the parents. They will instead follow their trainer or whoever you assign them to. I like to set up restraints (silk or plant ropes) and tie them up around my fort, around dangerous areas to keep an eye out.

There is a bug however, that sometimes when you tie up an animal, it stops all breeding for that animal type. If this happens you have to untie all your animals, and it should make them procreate once again.

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schm0

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Re: work dogs
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2007, 11:37:00 am »
Couldn't you just slaughter them? Nothing tastes better than puppy pie.
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Eagle of Fire

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Re: work dogs
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2007, 12:08:00 pm »
Hey, think positively: that carpenter won't die soon!  ;)
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Re: work dogs
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2007, 12:25:00 pm »
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Originally posted by schm0:
<STRONG>Couldn't you just slaughter them? Nothing tastes better than puppy pie.</STRONG>

Agreed, half my fortress eats puppy/kitten meat and wears their skin as armor  :)

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ktrey

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Re: work dogs
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2007, 12:54:00 pm »
I cage puppies/kittens/calves/foals on announcement. They provide more meat/bones when they mature.
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utunnels

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Re: work dogs
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2007, 11:52:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by schm0:
<STRONG>Couldn't you just slaughter them? Nothing tastes better than puppy pie.</STRONG>

Haha, maybe I will think about that when I get 20-30 war dogs.

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Deathworks

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Re: work dogs
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2007, 05:09:00 am »
Hi!

The one thing you shouldn't do is making them available for pets. Once they are that, it seems you can't slaughter them or otherwise get rid of them.

As I mentioned elsewhere, I got that dog crawling around my fortress that is half-dead and I can't even turn it into dog-biscuits. I suspect that it is because it is owned by a dwarf.

Termitehead wrote:

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... half my fortress eats (...) kitten meat ...

You monster :) :) :) :) :) :)

(Just kidding, though personally I am not the type to give my dwarves shamisen.)

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Wood Gnome

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Re: work dogs
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2007, 10:05:00 am »
if the owner of the animal dies you can butcher the animal.  just not while it's owned (or claimed a dwarf, if it's a cat).
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