Hi everyone. For background info I have a 4 year old small breed dog who is very friendly and gentle. I fostered my second litter of kittens (5 of them) last month. They did the initial quarantine before interacting with my dog. They all got along well and the kittens mostly just ran around and played with each other and me. I fell in love with one kitten (Tux) who got super attached to me. To top it off he is the same color as my dog so I thought it was a perfect match. It was eventually time for these kittens to be up for adoption so they had to go back. I adopted Tux and everything was going fine. His health is totally OK and we play with him frequently. He is about 3 months old. The problem is that he keeps going to my dog and attacking/biting/scratching his face and body. My dog doesn’t do anything and just stares at us like “Please get him away from me.” and sometimes runs away. So we turn Tux’s attention to a toy and that works for awhile until he just decides to go after my dog again. This has caused my dog to be paranoid in his own home. It seems as though he feels he cannot relax unless they are in separate rooms. I feel terrible for my dog because of this. Tux plays with his tail, his legs, private parts, grabs onto his neck, etc. I am completely torn on what to do. I love him to death and would be heartbroken if he’s just not a good match. We’re also not sure if one day my dogs going to just be fed up and be aggressive back? While we were fostering Tux and his siblings, this behavior never occurred. I understand it might be because he is used to playing with his kitten siblings in this way. We tried putting him in time out each time he goes to my dog, but that doesn’t seem to be working either. I do not know what else to do. If it’s not meant to be then I will just have to accept it, but any advice is appreciated.
Edit: I also want to mention that during fostering, I noticed the kittens were in pairs and each had a favorite sibling (even though they all mostly played together) but Tux was kind of an outsider and mostly snuggled and cuddled with me. This caused me to believe that he would be fine alone, otherwise I would hesitate on separating him.
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