# Puppies and Kittens!

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/puppies-and-kittens/4909>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [January 30, 2014, 5:01am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/puppies-and-kittens/4909 "2014-01-30T05:01:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 5:01am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/puppies-and-kittens/4909/1 "2014-01-30T05:01:39Z")

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So I was thinking: What horrible dwarven atrocity could I preform in this game of dorfs?

Burning puppies and kittens in magma.

Then I though of C:DDA.

I thought of how we have tameable cats and dogs.

Then I though why can’t tame animals in C:DDA breed?

So now we are here, I want breed able animals. Animals would generate gender upon taming (since you can’t examine the animal closely while it eats your face).

Usefulness:  
Obviously for the meat farming potential of course! Dogs and cats would be a good source of lean, dubious meat. Also they would be tame upon birthing! Breed dog armies! Swarm amigara horrors with fluffy adorable kittens!

How:  
We would do a proximity thing, if an animal of a different gender gets within 5 tiles of an animal of different gender they would impregnate the female. After a season the female would produce a litter, and after another season they would go to full size. Then another 3 for full reproductive function. Litters would be 4 babies flat.

Unbalanced ness:  
?Free? Source of meat: Not viable with the 2 season (28 day) wait time. This would take a game-crashing amount of animals. Puppies and kittens don’t produce meat.

Unethical/PETA: And you can kill zombified children but you cannot kill an annoying, loud, mean ass cat? Or a large, dumb, semi-loyal cow? Be a man! It’s you or them!

Too much work/Poor implementation ideas:  
I agree the animal proximity thing isn’t great, but it is simple enough for new players to understand. This also helps with the de-population of dogs after gathering 3-7 of them for an army. This way you can get a reasonable amount to be useful without it being OP. This shouldn’t be too much work for what I’ve suggested.

TL;DR  
 ![](https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6128459264/h2D7DDEC4/)

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/puppies-and-kittens/4909/2 "2014-01-30T05:14:55Z")

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Implementation-wise, it might be better to have a “put in barn/coop/stall/field” action that implies the start of animal husbandry type things. Then you interact with the affected terrain piece to do actions like gather eggs/milk, or feed the animals.  
Slaughter and butchering would probably just be manual, no need to add a seperate system for that.  
Oh yea, and having sufficient animals kept together would do a breeding check or something periodically.

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**Author:** ![Inquisitor\_Dust](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/inquisitor_dust/32/119_2.png) [@Inquisitor\_Dust](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Inquisitor_Dust)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 5:16am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/puppies-and-kittens/4909/3 "2014-01-30T05:16:59Z")

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Cataclysm: Harvest Moon? I’m totally ok with this. I still need to get a proper farm going though…

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 5:19am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/puppies-and-kittens/4909/4 "2014-01-30T05:19:00Z")

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I wouldn’t mind a henhouse/barn for animals. A nice little UI, use the tent code for building, lead animals into it like a trap.

I just want some animal husbandry so I can get more dogs for my slime-farming army.

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**Author:** ![Inadequate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Inadequate](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Inadequate)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/puppies-and-kittens/4909/5 "2014-01-30T05:20:19Z")

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That would be absolutely wonderful. I’ve longed for proper farming ever since I started playing this game. It would make a much better case for a stable base over a mobile one, too. I imagine growing crops and breeding animals would be difficult on any vehicle, no matter the size.

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**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/puppies-and-kittens/4909/6 "2014-01-30T22:11:58Z")

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[quote=“gtaguy, post:1, topic:4909”]Unethical/PETA: And you can kill zombified children but you cannot kill an annoying, loud, mean ass cat? Or a large, dumb, semi-loyal cow? Be a man! It’s you or them![/quote]pretty sure PETA doesn’t give a shit about killing human children, all they care about is their precious goddamn spotted owl.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/puppies-and-kittens/4909/7 "2014-01-31T01:22:25Z")

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If god didn’t want us to eat animals he shouldn’t have made them so goddamn delicious.

^ This to everyone who doesn’t like to eat meat.

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**Author:** ![StopSignal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/stopsignal/32/1923_2.png) [@StopSignal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/StopSignal)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/puppies-and-kittens/4909/8 "2014-01-31T01:49:21Z")

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[quote=“gtaguy, post:1, topic:4909”]Usefulness:  
Obviously for the meat farming potential of course! Dogs and cats would be a good source of lean, dubious meat.[/quote]

![](http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/anYjBB5_460sa.gif)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/puppies-and-kittens/4909/9 "2014-01-31T02:15:08Z")

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I nearly posted the ZippoCat gif.

Then I thought about me getting banned.

Then I realized I don’t give much of a shit, but here is a spoiler incase you are out of eye bleach:

![](http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/q/image/1345/42/1345429673776.gif)