So often my dog will spend time in my room and lay on the bed with me. She's barely noticeable, just a chihuahua.
Well, I find it hard to kick her out, it makes her sad and this always makes me feel bad. So, is it POSSIBLE to project with an animal near you? She doesn't move much once she's asleep.
I have three very large dogs that sleep with me, as long as they're not constantly moving around ya should be fine
I can't sleep or do any astral projection while my cat is next to me, he always move or wash himself so I prefer to leave him sleep on my bed during daytime and he understand when I'm about to go to bed so I just bring him in the living room.
It really depends on if you're comfortable to sleep next to your dog really.
And when I'm about to astral project he knows it and always move around lol.
If you can ignore anything going on around you, then that should be fine.
If you can't ignore things, such as movement, then you're going to have a hard time.
Though I once wondered about this very same kind of thing myself, I have since found that for me personally it doesn't seem to make any difference. I suppose though that it would depend on the animal in question. I sleep with my cat on my bed, (or with her using me as her bed for part of the night.) She doesn't really move when she's asleep though. I can easily imagine that sleeping near an animal (or of course even a person,) that kicked and rolled around making noise, would be a different story. That said, I do not actually consciously project, I only practice sometimes and try to. I tend to go on the assumption that I could with a pet on the bed though because I can of course sleep with one on there.
One concern I have though about pets on the bed is actually of a animal not already up there, jumping up onto it. Even a smaller dog or a cat can land quite hard.