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[HatfieldCW]

Pit's what you're looking for.  Wall it off with sealed internal doors, fortifications and/or windows, then designate the whole area with a zoo that's divided into "In Jail" and "Just Visiting" sectors, then pit everything in there.  The problem I run into is cats.  I inevitably wind up with some dwarf who has fifteen stinking kittens as pets, so I have to use the old lever maneuver to trick him into murdering them all, which usually ends in him going berserk and it's tantrum city.

Another option is chains, of course.  Buy a bunch of elfin rope reed cloth, twist it into ropes and line your corridors with shackled critters.

[Strangething]

Back on the rails, a really good way to have a controlled population of livestock is mules. Horse + Donkey = sterile mule. They don't breed, are large meat animals, can be selectively bred with one gigantic, enormous male horse to be very productive and I think you can milk the female donkeys.

Can you actually breed mules in 31.10? I thought they were import-only.

Another option is chains, of course.  Buy a bunch of elfin rope reed cloth, twist it into ropes and line your corridors with shackled critters.

Ah, the feline burglar alarm system.

[pickupsticks]

Now what would be really fun would be if you could chain animals to other animals.

[Murphy]

You can breed mules. But the horses that traders bring with them would ruin the day. Also, immigrant pet horses.

[Beeskee]

It takes a little while for a dwarf with the Animal Care labor enabled to come let them out. That labor is also used to cage animals. Since it's so important I usually enable it on all my dwarfs, or at least most of them.

Actually the skill is Animal Hauling. Animal Care is somewhat not-useful.

That's what I meant, yeah, got them confused.

[Deon]

Dig a room, carve a hole in the ceiling, seal off the room, throw animals down the hole.

This. It always works for me.

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

Personally, I build a tall spire, and throw the animals off of it onto the butchers shop.. unless its cattle, then I just milk them like a mad man.

[jester]

kill them all except for anything that fights.  By about year 2 immigrants pets and standing wardogs should have enough female dogs, all other standard domestics must die.  Anything else will eventually end up in death of FPS.  What do you need to breed them for, more food?

[sneakey pete]

You can get rid of claimed pets with a decent little setup


Say you have a corridor between the booze and the meeting area

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#+P+BBBBB+P+#Doors get set to disallow animals, bridge detour to the side gets set as very low pathfinding area. pressure plates linked to bridge. Animals will try and follow their owners, eventually they won't manage to get through the doors, so then path through the bridge to the south, hit the pressure plate on the way though which drops them down into whatever pit/magma you have below.

You probably need to have it bigger to get the delays right, and you might also want to do it with a wider corridor to make sure that noone trys walking it themselves (in the case of magma at least). You could ahve a magma releasing system so you can check first, if your into that though.

[Leperous]

Simple spike traps, placed in busy corridors, attached to levers work wonders. Bonus points if you can avoid injuring any dwarves in the process.

Seriously, try it one day

[Zyrjello]

I prefer to toss my excess animals off the top of a tower. Sure, it's only as fast as the dwarves can climb the tower, but the splash of body parts as the creature hits the floor is remarkably satisfying.