Puppy Car/Travel Sickness

[XDA]

I have a 3 month old greyhound collie cross who isn't a great traveller.

We had to take her on a 2 hour drive the other week, and she was sick 4 times!! She seems to starts off drooling at first before being sick.

She's been in the car a few times before, roughly for 10 min journeys where she was fine.

Are there any solutions or will it just take time for her to get used to travelling in a car?

Cheers.

[SGirl]

Our lurcher had this when we first had her - she grew out of it by 6 months. I got round it by putting a cover on the back seat for her initially so that if she was sick, it wasn't all over the car. I found it was helpful to stop the car and let her out for a few minutes if she was showing signs of needing to be sick - sometimes that stopped her being sick at all, sometimes she held onto it until we were back on the road again!

But it really was just a waiting game. I found that not feeding her before we went out made no difference at all - except to the quantity she brought up. If she was fed, she'd re-ingest everything she brought up - but if she wasn't fed beforehand, she wouldn't touch the vomit she produced. But she was still sick, either way.

We also found Poppy was better on longer journeys than shorter ones, too. She could happily do a run down the M4 and A34 with no problems, yet a quick trip to some woods a few miles away would make her sick.

[993rsr]

XDA said:

I have a 3 month old greyhound collie cross who isn't a great traveller.

We had to take her on a 2 hour drive the other week, and she was sick 4 times!! She seems to starts off drooling at first before being sick.

She's been in the car a few times before, roughly for 10 min journeys where she was fine.

Are there any solutions or will it just take time for her to get used to travelling in a car?

Cheers.

Our Manchester Terrier was exactly the same, he would produce gallons of drool when travelling in the car, wimper and be sick. We tried everything, rescue remidy, small amount of ginger before going in the car, nothing worked.

Then around 7 months he was fine, it's just a waiting game I'm afraid!

[Vanessa B]

http://www.dorwest.com/Catalogue/Veterinary-Medici...

Try Dorwest Veterinary products, Scullcap & Valerian tablets (Link above) theses worked really well for my Aunt's dog.

[AdiT]

My nieces Rotty was exactly the same with drool then sick. She grew out of it as she got big enough to see out of the windows. A friend Lab was the same.
Mine used to fall so sound asleep in the car when a pup, I couldn't wake him.

[bexVN]

2hrs for a 3 month old is a long journey. As pup is ok on short journeys chances are he will outgrow it but slowly increase journey time if you can.

[TackleburyUk]

Same with our puppy.

First few times he yaked thankfully over a towl rather than the leather. Seems to have grown out of this now and can do 3 hours non stop easy.

Trick is to teach them to go to the lavvy before you set off. Ours is very good at letting us know he needs a pee halfway through a journey so its only a case of stopping and he goes right away.

He gets a wet nose these days which drips all over the center console etc..

The joys of sticking a dog in a £50k car....

[XDA]

Thanks for the replies all, much appreciated. I guess it's just a waiting game until she gets a bit older.

[Who me ?]

Haven't had a pup for a long time -most of mine are older dogs , well used to cars .However ,my my uncle had a theory that you trained / got them use to cars as young as possible, and make each journey as smooth as possible ,building up distance gradually .Seemed to work for him .