I have a 3.5 pounder and a 4 pounder that sleep with me.. well I have two more that do also.. but those are the smaller.. the both have been kinda trained to sleep in the middle of us, up closer to our upper part of our bodies.. they do fine..
I did have a 5 pounder that fell off the bed in the night, and punctured her left lung and the vet said she bled out in ten minutes.. that was a nightmare..
We do not know if she was playing with the other dog at some point, or if she was just too close to the end of the bed and turned over and fell off..
we do not know if somehow we did this to her.. we have never forgotten that.. but we do have a lower bed now.. I would sleep on the floor on a mattress if I had to..
But when she fell of the bed, she got to my closet and died on my shoes.. so what a shock when we woke up..
You can teach them to stay up close to you.. you can also harness her and tie have a lead on her, tie it to the centre of the bed, to ensure she cannot fall off.. our first baby boy after the accident we did this too for a long long time.. so he then learned to stay up in the middle of us..
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