Ny way to remove pet’s ownership

dwarf-fortress

Previously I make all my animals has their owner except the cats.
Now when I'm thinking of keeping only goat, sheep,dogs and kill others.
I realize I can't cancel ownership.

After searching on Google, I found some ways:

1.Kill the pet with magma or trap etc… ,but will make dwarf unhappy

2.Kill the dwarf, but almost EVERY dwarf has pet, means I need to kill every dwarf.

So, is there anyway to turn the pet back to "no owner" condition?
Like mod, dwarf therapist, DFhack, or change through the raw files ?

Best Answer

Once a pet is given to a dwarf (or in the case of cats, selected by a cat) then you have no power to change it other than letting the dwarf succumb to some !!!FUN!!!.

Once the fun has occurred, you may assign the animal to another dwarf, or butcher / pasture as required however they will keep their name.