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A dog that's had to be rehomed takes a little while to feel truly settled. Not feeling completely confident in their environment can come out in all sorts of ways.
A dog of 11 months is still growing up. He's an adolescent, whose social development has been interrupted by the rehoming process. So, you have all the normal exuberance and behavioural issues that come with an adolescent dog, and also the problems that come with settling a dog into a new home.
Personally, I'm with V. If I take on a dog that's that. Any problems I can't counter, I have to live with. The dog got no choice in any of my decisions to take him on. All the choice lay with me, all the agency lay with me. He has no choice but to live with those decisions.
It takes time chika. You know it does. You cannot take on a 11 month old rehome dog and expect everything to slot easily into place just like that. 11 days is nothing. You are building a relationship that will last for years and in a few years time when you look back, this stuff will feel like a tiny droplet in an ocean of time.
Even without the rehoming issue, an 11 month old dog is a bucket load of work and fraught with problems and hurdles. Even if you have had the dog from 8 weeks old, as I had Carrot, adolescence is tough going. I am still working thgrough all sorts of odd behaviours and problems with Carrot and he's 13 months old. Granted a lot of that is due to him having been in pain all his little life, but a lot of it is just normal adolescent boundary pushing.
Give it time. Keep calm and be consistent in your messages. Make sure your cats have somewhere to go where he can't follow them. And depending how things go, engineer some supervised contact between them.
If after a couple of months things haven't sorted themselves out then consult a behaviourist or seek guidance from forums dedicated to pets (I can send you some links).
You owe it to this dog to give him the best chance of fitting into your family that you can. It is likely already too late to take him back and it not be a damaging wrench for him. So you might as well try to do him some good. Then if you do end up having to rehome him, try and rehome him yourself through word of mouth or with the help of a rehoming charity that goes through a proper checking and match making process with get to know the dog visits, home checks and a cooling off period.
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