That's when you simply fire up the butcher's shops, tanning workshops, craftdwarves workshops, and the kitchens to base your entire economy around the wholesale slaughter of kittens and the manufacture of various luxury goods out of their remains for both internal consumption and export.
That's when you simply fire up the butcher's shops, tanning workshops, craftdwarves workshops, and the kitchens to base your entire economy around the wholesale slaughter of kittens and the manufacture of various luxury goods out of their remains for both internal consumption and export.
That only works as long as you can get them before the adoption, after which they become pets and aren't valid for standard butchering. If you cage them beforehand, and make sure the butcher and animal control dwarf aren't cat lovers, then it's no problem, but if you were capable of staying on top of the breeding of animals and managing caged populations, you wouldn't have had a catsplosion in the first place, now would you have?
When all else fails, there's always magma or that syndrome that will melt their flesh from their bones!
Without a trap (as in a sorting mechanism like a dwarf-passable but pet-impassible door and another path that involves certain death), it's hard to do that without wiping out your own dwarves, though.
Without a trap (as in a sorting mechanism like a dwarf-passable but pet-impassible door and another path that involves certain death), it's hard to do that without wiping out your own dwarves, though.