Should I separate our female dogs?

Your pregnant female should be sleeping in her own separate whelping area by now - in another room/another part of the house. She needs to feel comfortable in the place she will produce her puppies, and rear them. And as the other dog is a female, you would be well advised to keep them apart, particularly when you are not around to supervise. However, only you are there to watch the body language and it's difficult to be general about how they might get along as her time comes.

Of course, once she's whelped her puppies, you must keep the other b itch, and any other household pets, well away, for at least the first 3 weeks. She needs to feel safe without the need to defend her puppies and if she doesn't she won't settle down, and could well hurt her puppies. Again, some bitches don't worry about this, but normally other family pets should be kept well away at this time. There is also the risk of other pets bringing infection to the nest, when they are at their most vulnerable. I always take my nursing mum's outside to a separate area to pooh and pee while they are nursing.

Good luck with the whelping - Jackie whelpings are usually straight-forward but don't let her strain hard once her contractions have started, for more than an hour before seeing the puppy arrive (every delivery). I always phone my vet when things start, just to put them on alert in case I need emergency assistance (C.Section).

Why wasn't the Jack spayed before she came into heat? Sorry you didn't catch her early enough. Wait to see where she starts her nesting. She may choose some place else other than the basket or set her up a space some where kinda isolated & away from everything. Dogs like to have their pups away from every thing & kinda dark.

No I would not leave them together. She is due within the next week. She will not want another dog around her when it is that close for her to have puppies. I have Dachshund and Pit Bulls. When my Dachshunds get ready or are that close to having puppies they don't want any of the other dogs around them at all. They dont even want my cat around.

They need separating.

The other dog is not going to benefit the situation in anyway and could cause unintentional harm to the puppies and stress to the dam.

The puppies need to be kept in a room that the other dog is not allowed access to at all.

"however I have no experience of this sort of thing " And yet you allowed your dog to bred anyways.

YES you need to separate them unless you want at least ONE injured dog and one or more dead pups.

Dogs aren't people, they don't sit around waiting in joyous anticipation for pups to be born to another *****.

You need to place your pregnant ***** in a dedicated whelping area and keep your Staff female OUT OF THERE. Even if she doesn't hurt the pups the stress of her being around can make your JRT ***** kill them.

Your breeding mentor should have covered this with you in the two years you studied with her while titling your b**** and you really should be asking her this question. If you want the puppies to live, you need to separate them. This has nothing to do with the BREED of your other female, but her sex (especially if she isn't spayed either).

Yes, so they just share a basket.