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car sick puppy !

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lozza1985 · 05/03/2012 13:19

I have a gorgeous 5 month old Spanish water dog who is really bad at travelling , he has a crate in the car but he will poo , be sick and drool everywhere even on the shortest of journeys . we picked him up from Wales from the breeders and he was fine I have tried dog travel treats and sickness tablets and they havnt worked ! has anyone got any ideas please !!

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Flatbread · 05/03/2012 14:06

I don't know if this will work for you, but we used to have my pup in the footwell of my seat, and she would rest her head on my knees and sleep.

As she got bigger, we moved her to the back.

I wonder if your dog is a bit scared? The closeness with you should help.

feesh · 05/03/2012 14:21

Or try her on the back seat with a harness clipped into the seatbelt. That way she can look out of the window (not sure if the watching the horizon thing works for canine carsickness, but it certainly does for humans!).

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lozza1985 · 06/03/2012 07:32

ok thanks I'll give anything ago

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Sluttybuttons · 06/03/2012 19:38

My previous dog was like this, 10 mins in the car and she had pood and been sick. When we were moving i was dreading the journey (6 hours). I got her some sickness tabs from pets at home and put her in the boot with a dog guard. Not a thing. I thought it must be the tablets but gradually over time i stopped them and just had her in the boot and she was never sick again. Somebody once told me it takes a very long journey to sort them out, or it would have been that the boot was just better for her.
My dog was at the point that the car just terrified her (even after she stopped being sick). We started just sitting in the car without the engine then we tried with the engine and gradually increased the journeys. She finally got to the point where she loved going in the car

Yoghurty · 09/03/2012 10:38

Boy dog was like this as a puppy- I had him on my lap the first time- yeugh! That was a pair of jeans i never wore again

We think he's grown out of it now (he's 2) but to be safe, he is never fed on the day we take him in the car, we take an extra crate mat and stop and let him out a lot.
We did get medication from the vets that worked, but it was tres expensive, so we only used it for long trips.

Funnily, he was and is always fine on public transport- so maybe it was something about the motion or space around him?

momnipotent · 11/03/2012 17:18

Our older dog was like this as a puppy. As an added bonus, he often waited until we were pulling into the driveway to throw up everywhere, just when you thought you had made it home safely!

We bought those strips that you put on the bottom of the car that are intended for people with travel sickness, I think they disburse static build up in the car. He never threw up again in the car after we put those strips on! The strips eventually wore out and we never replaced them, I guess he had out-grown it by then.

Will find a link....
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=car+sickness+strips

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