Car Sickness

[granny-mo]

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Hi,

Could anyone reccomend any herbal remedies that would help with out 5 month old whippets car sickness :x ?

Since getting her we have taken her on short journeys every day which always end in something nice. She goes on journeys with our other 3 dogs all of which are really settled in the car. However, despite this she appears to get really low in mood, salavates alot and usually vomits, it then take around 2 hours for her to get back to her usual develish self :clown: .

We would really like to get some advice about herbal remedies. I have also heard of a DAP spray, does anyone reccomend this?

Thanks

 

[~Helen~]

Try this section of FAQ: car sickness and general travelling advice

Good luck :luck: I'm a big fan of DAP, but I've heard it doesn't work for everyone.

 

[oakmoorehill]

I gave my whippets and setter ginger biscuits and that worked with mine trouble was getting the pups to eat them :- "

 

[masta]

Hi,
Could anyone reccomend any herbal remedies that would help with out 5 month old whippets car sickness  :x   ?

Since getting her we have taken her on short journeys every day which always end in something nice.  She goes on journeys with our other 3 dogs all of which are really settled in the car.  However, despite this she appears to get really low in mood, salavates alot and usually vomits, it then take around 2 hours for her to get back to her usual develish self  :clown:   .

We would really like to get some advice about herbal remedies.  I have also heard of a DAP spray, does anyone reccomend this?

Thanks

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i have the same problem, and have tried everything Dap didnt work or valerian,ginger,kalms,or 101 other remedies the only thing i have some success with is sea legs she is now 15 months and only a fraction better

good luck

:luck:

 

[rls22]

Sealegs did the trick for my Logan immediately and he really was horrendous.

Fingers crossed it works for your pup too :luck:

 

[jok]

Sealegs did the trick for my Logan immediately and he really was horrendous. Fingers crossed it works for your pup too  :luck:

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Yes - Rachel really was in despair and i remember her saying to me "he'll never be okay in the car". This was after a trip home from ringcraft in which he pood, weed and threw up :x :x :x

Rach gave him 'sea legs' which you buy from the chemist - it was a miracle cure! She had tried all the usual things before hand - short journeys, starving him before travelling, etc etc to no avail.

 

[rls22]

Sealegs did the trick for my Logan immediately and he really was horrendous. Fingers crossed it works for your pup too  :luck:

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Yes - Rachel really was in despair and i remember her saying to me "he'll never be okay in the car". This was after a trip home from ringcraft in which he pood, weed and threw up :x :x :x

Rach gave him 'sea legs' which you buy from the chemist - it was a miracle cure! She had tried all the usual things before hand - short journeys, starving him before travelling, etc etc to no avail.

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And ringcraft is only 15 mins from my house!

I also find that he feels much safer travelling in a crate, so we now have a crate as a permanent fixture in the boot of the car.

He travelled over 1000 miles during a week away in Ireland and the day before we left he was still pooing or being sick on EVERY journey - he had his first sealegs tablet on the evening before we set off for our holiday and he's not had a single incident since.

We only used half the packet of tablets too as it is pretty much always a psychological thing.

 

[FifeJillandIan]

Blue had the same problem. The vets nurse who ran the puppy parties we took him to recommended that we feed him in the back of the car - stationery, without the engine even running at first so that he started to associate it with good things.

Stage 2 was to do the same but with the engine running but not to try actually moving the car at all.

Stage 3 was to start very short (end of road and back) trips and build them up gradually. We didn't feed him his actual dinner in the car but tried this with a rawhide chew. Seemed to break the cycle quite quickly and it didn't take too long at all before he was managing slightly longer trips (at least the 10 minute drive to the vets for the puppy party didn't end up with sick in the back of the car every time any more!)

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[whippetsrus]

Albus had the same problem when he was a pup. Poor lad really suffered. We found that he prefered travelling on the back seat, harnessed in rather than in his crate. That helped and then he grew out of the rest.

 

[nhealey]

Zebidee had a serious car sickness problem as a pup. He always travelled in a crate but the sickness stopped as soon as we put a large soft cushion on the base of the crate. Might have been a coincidence or it might have damped out the sickness-inducing motion.

 

[granny-mo]

) Thanks for the replies. We've bought some DAP spray and are trying that out for a little while. If that doesn't seem to work we'll try the Sealegs suggestion.

 

[rls22]

I think I'm right in thinking that DAP takes several months to take effect.

For example if you had a dog that was scared of fireworks, you would start using it in August/September ready for Bonfire night

Although I have just looked on a website about it and it implies that it has an immediate effect. I stand corrected!