Quote Originally Posted by Dr.Goodnow
This pup is over an hour away from the mother and sibs as her post stated

The question she asked was did any of us think it was safe to allow her other dog to possibly surragate as warmth factor. She has already seperated it, and is bottle feeding it, her female spayed bitch seems to have taken an interest in it. and while it is possible that the bitch could surrogate it, I would wait until it was a few weeks old before allowing that, there is no denying that having a same specie surrogate will help the pup in the long run. The question at hand is if she should try it now.

I would say from my own experience no, I have had luck with moms that litters were close in birth dates surrogating, and have had a few dogs that were excellent babysitters, and nannies for other specie, but as a rule they all had previous litter experience.
Well put! I agree!