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[sono]

I swear i just saw a cat pick up an earlier kill and neatly dispose of it on the refuse.
Discuss.

=p

[Julius Clonkus]

They do that. And they will drop their kills at the feet of their owners too, which can lead to nice miasma madness when you don't have enough trashdwarves.

[sono]

How cute! =3

[Astramancer]

Dropping them off at the feet of their master is the main reason why every workstation I have is in it's own room, with a door.  If some cat drops off a cockroach at my legendary craftsdwarves feet, I find it's easier to just move him to a different craftsdwarf workshop then hope one of my idiot haulers figures out that a cockroach corpse is higher priority than clearing stone marked for dumping.  The door contains the miasma, and I lock it to keep haulers from going in and getting the crafts.  I unlock it when I realize it's been 3 years and they're still sitting there, unclaimed...

Of course, sometimes the dwarf is eating when the cat drops it off, then everyone gets disgusted by miasma.  Fortunately, dwarves spend most of their time sleeping or working, so the 'contain miasma with fort design' method works great.

[Doomshifter]

How cute! =3

How annoying.

[Amalgam]

The cats in my forts seem to LOVE raiding the food stockpile whenever it fills up with vermin. On one hand this is very useful for protecting the food, on the other hand it leaves a bunch of rotten remains stinking up the food stockpile.

[Danjen]

I find it's easier to just move him to a different craftsdwarf workshop then hope one of my idiot haulers figures out that a cockroach corpse is higher priority than clearing stone marked for dumping.  The door contains the miasma, and I lock it to keep haulers from going in and getting the crafts./quote]Wouldn't it just be easier to just make the doors pet unpassable?

[Skorpion]

I find it's easier to just move him to a different craftsdwarf workshop then hope one of my idiot haulers figures out that a cockroach corpse is higher priority than clearing stone marked for dumping.  The door contains the miasma, and I lock it to keep haulers from going in and getting the crafts.

Wouldn't it just be easier to just make the doors pet unpassable?

Nope. They follow dwarves through regardless.

[Grimlocke]

Heh well, real cats do that too. Mine once spend a night killing 5 mice, and depositing them on the carpet. Damn nasty look in the morning, carpet full of corses.

I usualy dont much care for miasma in DF though, I find it much easier to just add another *<<*Native platinum statue*>>* than to have the half dozen mostly idle hauler dwaves it takes to clean it all up.

[Skorpion]

I just have to manually dump-tag remains, because otherwise dwarves go wandering 'cross hill and dale to the chasm to stockpile whatever the tree-dwelling cave spiders kill.

Luckily, the goblins took care of one cat for me.

[Quietust]

The only time I ever noticed cats dropping vermin at their owners' feet is before I edited body_default.txt to fix the "too injured" warnings - after making that fix, cats catch vermin, bring them to their owner, then immediately carry the vermin to a refuse stockpile (if one exists).

[Ieb]

Since cats bring kills to their owners because they have deemed them unable to catch prey, do cats who are pets to Hunters do the same thing regardless of the twelve elephants the guy/girl just shot dead?

[Sergius]

That's nothing. I have a bear that scolds you whenever you make an open fire.

[dAGNARUS]

My cat kept picking dwarf chunks from fallen dwarves after a goblin siege and dropped them at my dwarves' feet. How that didn't cause a tantrum spiral beats me.

[Kinoko_Otoko]

My dwarves always clean up messes with relative speed. Then again, I don't use dumping for much, and it seems to be considered super-high priority (that's what you get for abusing the quantum stockpiles, hehe).