akitas Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 I walk a friends dog at the moment. He is not a problem as he slots nicely in with my dogs, the downside is, he is rarely in a car. I mainly drive my dogs to their walks, so I pick him up and the moment the car moves he starts drooling. It is excessive. The boot, where the dogs travel is soaking wet and so are my dogs. When he ate before he usually throws up in the car. He is about 10 month old and he is not a very good eater, he is very skinny. Here are my questions, will it be likely he gets used to it? And is there anything out there to make it easier for him/me/my dogs when he travels with us. Thanks for your help Ursula Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sproggie14 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 My in-laws had good success with rescue remedy apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmCHammer Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 one of my dogs used to be quite travel sick. Strangely it was always on the way out on a journey never the way home... We did lots of little drives around, but found ginger biscuits to work quite well about 45 minutes before the journey and not letting her eat anything sizeable at least three hours before travelling Thats for the dog, not you She is alot better now and will only tend to be sick when we are driving round country lanes on holiday (we don't get much country lanes in the midlands!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eve Posted August 15, 2007 Report Share Posted August 15, 2007 You've probably sorted/don't need an answer to this now But if not - Skull Cap and Valerian tablets might do the trick, especially if the dog is a bit anxious, timid or nervous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akitas Posted August 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2007 Thanks for all your help, sorry I didn't come back to you earlier. With lots of short trips to lovely walks, he is ok now on short trips. Not sure about longer ones though. Might bring him to the Wiccs show, then we will see ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue B Posted September 23, 2007 Report Share Posted September 23, 2007 This may not be of much help, but in my fostering experience, I found that a lot of dogs under a year get travel sick, but they usually grow out of it by the time they reach maturity. In other words, you may only have to put up with this for a few months Also, the more he associates being driven with nice things (walks) the more he might relax and not be so inclined to feel sick. Another thing you could try, is to crate him with a cover over the crate, if he can't see out he may feel better about the experience and also less likely to feel queasy from the movement not relating to what he is seeing - a big cause of nausea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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