Travel sickness

[frostoff]

Is there any good remedies out there for travel sickness in dogs? my five month old springer is hopeless in the car and drools a lot when traveling and is not all that keen to get in the car at all.
Any advice gratefully received.

[goshawk]

What might help is to put the dog as low as possible in the car. F.e. on the floor in front of the passenger seat.

Gr, Jan

[Stacia]

With luck he will grow out of it, most do. I have a friend who has been desperate with her pup being sick and drooling in the car and at 8 months old he is fine. She did go to the vet and get some travel sickness pills but now doesn't have to use them.

I remember years ago, I had a travel sick pup and she grew out of it. It might be a good idea to have a small crate or box to put the pup in so that it isn't tossed about too much with the car's motion.

Jelinga

[shropshirelad]

My Springer isn't a good traveller. I have been going out for shorter trips 5- 10mins at first and slowly increasing the time each journey. She still isn't 100% but has improved a lot. Not feeding her before we go out will help as well as having something to occupy her like a tennis ball etc.. She travels in a cage and doesn't mind getting in the car and will quite happily stay in there with the boot open while I potter about the garden.

[Nonehpets]

We had some benefits from using DAP (now badged as Adaptil) - I didn't want the pup wearing a collar in the car cage so we presprayed his vetbed half an hour before the journey and loaded it with him. That pup was terribly car sick form the day we picked him up until he was close to a year and then it seemed to improve though he never looked happy in the car.

Cathy

[Cynic]

I have a 9 1/2 year old Lab who until recently would have soaked the car with slabbering, It wasn't until she was put in the purpose build dog box, similar to her kennel that she stopped.

It also reduced her movement and forced her to sit down and there is a pup in with her too.

So I would go along with the crate idea though I would cover it apart from the door so the dog can see you.

Good luck I feel your pain.

[vicky payne]

There are posts on this, have a search and if you don't find my previous answers I'll write you a new one later

[vicky payne]

viewtopic.php?f=31&t=11597&hilit=+travel+sickness

[AnnieM]

One of my cockers was a bad traveller as a pup, she would start drooling as we were loading her into the car, ginger biscuits helped a little as did the bachs rescue remedy, but what really cured her was a 6 hour car journey up to Scotland. We covered their crate and set off, we stopped about every half an hour to let them out for a run, by the time we got to our destination she had completely stopped slobbering, had only been sick once at the beginning of the journey and I was very happy. I think the 6 hours of short journeys followed by nice walks, then straight back in the car again made her realise it was quite a good place to be.

[greenshank1]

My lab was terrible as a young pup drooling and being sick every time she went the car but I started to feed her in the car so she associated the car with good things and take her on 10 minute car journeys initially and then slowly build up the time in he car and she has completely grown out of it .