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I had a similar issue with an FB where it just stopped moving. Halfway through breaking down my layer of 6 emergency-doors (for the purposes of stalling it) it simply stopped doing anything.

Now it just sits there and I carved tunnels and fortifications into the walls surrounding it to make a practise-range for my dwarfs.  It's now a pincussion with 53 bolts embedded in its jasper body with all of its body-parts now red except for its right mandible.  With all its limbs disabled it's understandable that it's not moving any more...but I'm unsure what caused it to stop.  I think it corresponded when I walled-off the corridor it was heading up, but that doesn't explain why it stopped destroying doors and why it remained motionless when i had to deconstruct a section of the wall to let my genius mason out.

Wow, I can't believe I missed that.  Thanks, I'll see if I can get this working.

What I do is make a giant shared bedroom.  It's like a dormitory, but each bed is it's own room assigned to a dwarf, and they all overlap.  Even if a dwarf sleeps in the wrong bed, it's still in technically in their bedroom.  Anything in the shared area, like cabinets or chests, will be usable by all the dwarfs.  The room value suffers a little, but its nothing a few artifacts or decorated statues can't fix. 
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Don't overlapping rooms have their quality rating degraded?  Or is that only with different room-types like when you have your Mayor's study and dining room use the same chair and table?

edit: Oh wait, you just mentioned that you have to compensate for quality degradation.  But still, even a crappy bedroom is better than no bedroom.

A hallway with a one-way gate at each end (pressure-plate/hatch combo) filled with weapon-traps.  The enemies keep trying to walk down the corridor, step on a plate which makes the hatch in front of it vanish to an empty pit, and then with no way ahead, they decide to try to walk back out the other way.  All the while they are passing through your weapon-traps, getting ground into a fine paste.

The thing that kills children and animals is that they often get stunned by the repeated blows and can't get out of there.  I have personally saved a dog, a cat(yeah, I know...) and a dwarven child who wandered into the training room, and they were able to stumble out with only half of their internal organs bruised!

Check the combat logs for when pets or civilians walk into the danger room.  It consists mostly of them getting battered and bruised in a mostly non-lethal way.  What's lethal is when they can't get out due to being continuously stunned.

Danger rooms really do train up your dwarves fast.  I have not yet built one in my new fortress, but I did manage to get a legendary wrestler from an early encounter with a hydra.  Yes, he wrestled a hydra, and went from merely "proficient" before-hand to "legendary" after it was dead.  The 20 war-dogs latched onto it also helped, and the damn thing didn't die until I finished forging an iron battle-axe and gave it to my second military recruit.  It kept slowly healing all its injuries, but was fortunatley so encumbered by the *ahem* dogpile, that I had enough time to make weapons. But not armor...and so one of my dwarves was bitten in half.

But yeah, enough rambling, I'm going to test-out this "Squad of 3" training plan.

No, but I think I will.  For Science!!!

I have a bunch of injured war-dogs in my fortress who appear on my z-Health screen as "needs diagnosis".

Is there any chance that they will ever get diagnosed and then even treated by my top-notch dwarven medical staff?

Copper armor will probably stop their wooden melee weapons, but I think you'll still need to be careful of arrows.