"montana wildhack" wrote in message:

I keep trying to do research and I'm just not finding much. I'd think
there would be more info. out there somewhere. My friend here who did a
breeding a few years back had a male dog who knew the mom very well...
It's not quite the same thing.

I got in touch with a few people I know that have had puppy raising
experience. It's pretty unanimous that in your shoes, they'd leave well
enough alone. There is consensus that if the two dogs knew each other well
and the other dogs were known to be good puppy sitters, it would be okay to
let them together after the first few weeks, but that definitely won't work
in this situation. The only other suggestion was that if Bella is going to
be allowed to visit the puppies, it should be with supervision and when Neo
is out in the yard.

Suja