v0.31:Cat

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A small mammalian carnivore. It is usually domestic and hunts vermin.

Cats will kill Template:L in and around your fortress. They are fairly weak animals in combat (but combat can be quite random, and they have been known to surprise players on the rare occasion). They also seem to want to wander every room, hall and mineshaft at least once, perhaps due to some modeling of curiosity.

Cats cannot be assigned as Template:L; instead, cats choose Template:L as owners. Cats randomly choose from all the dwarves on the map, but have a much higher probability of choosing a Template:L who has the Template:L "admires cats for their aloofness". If a cat is caged, it will not adopt; however, it may adopt the moment it is taken from the cage (perhaps to be immediately butchered), regardless of who removes it from the cage.

Cats are useful around the fort to prevent the unhappy thoughts produced by vermin and also for producing large numbers of kittens. If you can resist their cuteness and charm, and you get to them before they adopt a dwarf, cats can be butchered to provide a small, never-ending trickle of Template:L (to become Template:L), Template:L (for a variety of end-products) and Template:L for your fort. As a breeding pair of cats only costs 22 embark points, this is well worth considering - just cage and/or butcher the kittens as they are born, lest the kittens grow to adopt a dwarf before their last voyage. (See Template:L)

Cats are also infamous for the phenomenon known as Template:L. If you are not careful, your cat population may quite literally explode causing your Template:L to plummet. This can be hard to resolve due to the fact that Template:L Template:L causes a strong unhappy Template:L to their owners.

Cats, by nature, will attempt to haul vermin to their owners. Often, the owner will then dismiss the cat, at which point the cat will attempt to bring the vermin remains to an appropriate refuse Template:L.^[Verify]

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