Weaponized Animals and Caravans -- mod

[mzonk]

I weaponize my animals.  My colonists take them along on caravans and use them as cannon fodder, among the other more commonly used tasks.

The game is written almost as if to deliberately make this a PITA.  The process of setting up a caravan involves first checking out the animals on the colony's "Animals" tab to decide which ones to take on a caravan, then forming the caravan and adding them to it, and also at some point making sure that the animals' owners (I forget the precise term) are properly set up so that they don't "belong" to colonists not at the caravan destination (and can't be released) after the caravan arrives.

The game is written almost as if to make this deliberately difficult.  Even the names of the animals don't match between the "Animals" tab and the caravan formation screen.  I have to use pencil and paper to write down the colonists' names, their respective weapons and the animals that are going on a quest.  There is no way to apply the criteria I use for selecting an animal for a caravan (no bonded animals, no pregnant animals, at least one of each gender stays behind, etc.).  Finally, there is no way to save a list of the animals (or colonists) that are going on a caravan (except on paper), making it necessary to redo the entire process each time I form a caravan.

Is there a mod that can aid me in caravan formation?