Do you need help with dog anxiety in the car? If you’re trying to overcome car anxiety in dogs and wonder how to stop my dog from getting sick in the car, we can help with this video! Traveling with a dog in the car takes a little extra planning at first, but car travel with a dog can be fun and enjoyable. It’s important to prevent dog motion sickness and recognize the signs of dog car anxiety. With the right dog training and puppy training you can overcome a nervous dog in the car and learn how to keep a dog calm in the car. Learn the best dog crate in the car, how to manage dog anxiety, how to calm a dog, and how to calm a nervous dog in the car. It’s best if you start now to get puppy used to car rides and prevent car sickness in dogs. Check to see if you’re using the right calming aids for dogs, which help reduce car anxiety, and puppy anxiety in the car. Learn how crate training can help with car travel, and which car safety harness for dogs is best. If you’re looking for a dog safety belt for car, or dog seat belt or need tips on dog travel, you’re in the right place. Learn more about car seat belts for dogs, what to do if you have a dog fearful in car, or your dog hates riding in the car. We’ll teach you how to calm an anxious puppy. You’ll love Michele Lennon, and How to Train a Dream Dog.
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Thanks for watching! 🐶🚗 How does your dog do in the car? Do you have any questions when it comes to puppies and car travel? We're here to help!
Hi I got a puppy 3 weeks ago named shandi, even tho he does have a poo and pee on the puppy pad but sometimes he doesn't any tips? He can only go in the yard
We suggest you teach Shandi to go potty outside, every single time! This free kit can help you with that! www.howtotrainadreamdog.com
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Fortunately, my new puppy is not afraid to ride in the car. In fact, she loves it. I have had five other dogs before her and each one of them used to get carsickness. They grew out of over time, but this is the first pup that I’ve owned who doesn’t react to the car rides. I feel very blessed.
Yeah, my little buddy used to get car sick too. He’s almost 2 yrs old now and doesn’t mind going for rides at all anymore. What a relief!
That's great!!
Our 6-month-old Cane Corso dislikes the car so much. I've waited, baited and coaxed her into the car for as long as 10 minutes before picking her up to go where we needed to go. There have been a couple of "accidents" in the car early in the process and she physically shakes every time even when someone sits next to her to try to calm her. We found she seemed a little more comfortable (no accidents) if she is in the front seat. I feel added stress because she's already over 50 pounds and anything we've done so far is getting really impractical and she needs to sit in the back. I watched this video the day it posted and based on the advice given, I changed up a few things. I have taken her out to the car twice a day when we don't need to be anywhere, and I don't feel hurried. My goal has been to just get in her the car without picking her up and forget driving around for now. After a lot of experimenting, we found she will get in the car if I am in the driver's seat first, start the car, and a family member brings her to the open passenger door. That is a temporary solution because I won't always have another human with me, but we've been able to stop picking her up (win!). Each session we let her get out then back in 6-8 times and end the training on a positive note. In our last session we closed the door and she shook a little but didn't whine or make a fuss and got out and back in again. Today we are going for a ride around the block after the spray suggested in the video is delivered. I want to add a crate, but the size is an issue. I'm thinking about how to pull that off. Our next hurdle is to address the shaking and she does so well with her crate in the house, I think it would help in the car. I also want to mention that we have 2 other large dogs and they run to the garage door when we use the cue words "let's go bye bye". They like going on rides that don't result in getting any particular place, too. They even tolerate the car wash and will go with me to oil changes and pick up groceries! With the puppy, I was getting to where we only go places with her that are necessary like the vet and I know that was adding to the problem. I don't think I've ever felt defeat while training dogs, but this one thing was starting to really become a problem I couldn't solve. I am so glad I saw this video as it re-energized my resolve! If you have any additional tips, I'm open because we aren't quite where we need to be! P.S. I have tried a ramp in the past and putting her favorite dog bed in the car. Neither worked but those were tried before watching the video and before she was getting into the car on her own. I may try the dog bed again.
It sounds like you're doing great and you're definitely on the right track. Our only other tip for you is to take this process really slowly! Due to her past aversion to the car you're going to have to go achingly slow in order to undo her past feelings about it. It might feel like it's boring to you but you'll really be helping her out by not pushing her too far. So you might spend several days or even a week at the "approach the car but don't go anywhere" stage. You don't want to push her to the point of any stress signal. But you're doing great and we are so glad the video has helped you!
Thank you!
I keep the book "30 Days to Reduce Stress" by Harper Daniels in my glove compartment in the car, and before driving will do a mindfulness exercise from the book in the seat sometimes. Especially when I have to bring my doggie to the vet. It calms us both down.
It's great that you are working on your own stress. You can't pour from an empty cup and it's important to keep up with your own mental health as well as your dog's!
Great information. Our girl doesn't like car rides and really dislikes riding in our motorhome. She shakes like a leaf and pants like crazy. We are going to work on these asap. thanks.
We are happy it helped you! Working on it in small doses will help her learn to love it!
Thank you for your help
Happy to help!
Our 17 month old Aussie puppy, Mickey, did very well training to go into any vehicle. When he was about 10 months old, he started to have anxiety only when we drive around town. If we drive on the highway is calm, and he may nap, and he is well behaved, but as soon as we come down into, a town or city and the vehicle slows down or the signal light goes on or you stop at a stoplight. He gets all upset and starts to bark and becomes a whiny puppy. We've done all kinds of desensitizing. We've had three different trainers, and we can't seem to break this habit or cycle. It doesn't seem to matter how much you try to desensitize, Sue, pull over and stop use treats, or any other method that has been suggested to us. We'd like to help Mickey so that we can all enjoy traveling. This is our first dog out of eight that has had this problem. Do you have any different suggestions? Other than usual stop and retrain because there are times you cannot pull over when the anxiety starts and you can't just stop and go and stop and go in traffic, it's getting to be extremely frustrating
Have you tried having him ride in a crate so he can't see out? It could also be that you have to pull back entirely on in town rides while you're working on this. No amount of training can undo the negative experiences. So while training to make it positive you have to 100% avoid the negative. Your in town car rides might start with 10 seconds of calm riding and then that session is done. If training isn't going well it's usually because it's advancing too quickly.
@@HowToTrainADreamDog A crate didn’t work either and I forgot to mention that I rode with him in the back seat for weeks treating and desensitizing him. I also forgot to mention he reacts also when my husband backs up the vehicle. We have been working on these problems all last fall and winter very slowly and spent an enormous amount of time and money (we even had the trainingers ride in the vehicle with us because they thought we were doing it wrong and they all gave up and told us to just keep taking out for rides) preparing for the long ride to our summer cottage this spring and summer but we can not seem to find a way to help him. It’s been over a year now and we still are living with him getting upset and barking and whining to a decibel level that hurts my ears. We are using an over the counter doggie calming chew but that only helps to a very small degree and not at all in town or city driving at all. We are at a loss as to what to do to help him. We have tried everything except Cesar Milton 🤷♀️. I am not a newbie I have trained 7 other dogs but this one stumps me!
You might want to consult a veterinary behaviorist. They can help you navigate training in a way that allows the dog's brain the ability to absorb the training (with a break from the stress). But it has to be a 100% positive reinforcement approach.
My 10 month old puppy will sometimes freak out, bark, whine, scratch at and pound on the door, etc while driving. Other times he won’t. It’s very strange and hard to decipher what triggers him since we live in a busy area with lots of traffic and pedestrians- but sometimes he doesn’t care about those things and other times those seem to be the trigger. It’s frustrating and dangerous for me, and potentially scary and upsetting for him. He is buckled in and I’m thinking about buying window blockers for him too. I’m not sure how to train this since it’s so sporadic.
Window blockers is a great first start. Also note where he is in the schedule. If he's well rested he might handle that stimuli better. if he's short on sleep or due for a nap, he might not handle it so well. That's just one thing to consider when you see sporadic behavior like that.
Great video, thank you! My dog is just over a year old. She hops in the car with no problem. When we drive it seems like she gets really anxious- she will pace in the back (as much as she can with the seat belt) and whine loudly (she's normally very quiet). The funny thing is she only does that on the way there. When she gets back in the car, its like she knows we're going home and lays down. Is there anything I can do to help her not be so anxious on the way there?
If offered her treats in the car but she is uninterested.
It sounds like you'll want to take a step back and re-start her association with the car. Every time she has that negative experience it's going to get harder to change her mindset. If she's not taking treats it means she's over the threshold and no new learning will take place. Try following the baby steps in this video, advancing only as her body language is 100% positive. Hold off on car rides until she can do them comfortably. Good luck, you got this!
Thanks for this video! We are currently training our 10wk old puppy to ride in the car. We have a crate in the trunk which she hops into happily and we started out with giving treats in the garage, then driving in and out of the garage. But when we tried a 5min trip to a carpark today (whilst letting him chew on a tasty tendon), he whined for some of the drive. Do we need to take a step back?
Yes it sounds like the step from driving in and out of the garage to the step of a 5 minute trip was a little too big of a leap for him! Try going for a 30 second drive, or even less if you hear whining. And keep up the work in the garage to really cement that positive association. It sounds like you're doing great, just take it a little slower. It'll benefit you both for a lifetime to take this process slow!
Thanks for the advice! Will try to go slower! 😊
How to find video of training a fearful dog. He hates riding in The car. 2yr English springer spaniel
You're in the right place! Follow the training suggestions in this video. Be sure to take it at a pace that is comfortable for your dog. If you push too far too fast you'll make his fear worse.
Can you do one about having a puppy when you already have a resident adult dog
This video can help you! kzhead.info/sun/hd2fl5mHbZiddJ8/bejne.html
I live in a rural area and in order to get to a dog park, decompression spot, vet, etc... for socialization, I need to take my puppy (an 11 week aussie/border collie) in the car -- and he whines and cries so much. I've been working on these steps, but I don't want him to miss out on socialization opportunities. Feel like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place -- either I take the car training super slow and he misses out on key socialization time, or he whines and cries in the car so I can socialize him to new people, places, sounds, etc... Any suggestions?
We suggest that you find other ways to socialize him with new sounds and smells rather than going in the car for right now. These experiences will not be positive for him if he has to experience stress in order to get there. Remember that even bringing home things from other places (grass, leaves, sticks, acorns, etc) can be great exposure to new things. You can put them in a sniff box so he can smell them but not consume them.
Please help me any advise would be amazing. My xl bully is nearly 2 he was absolutely fine in the car until he had to be neutered (we live in UK) ever aince he pants and druels like crazy in the car even sat just in the car park ive tried small trips treats calm music starting from scratch woth introduction to the car. This has been going on for 6 months now with no change
You can follow the steps in this video to help him feel more comfortable about the car!
How do I stop my dog from peeing in the car when scared of the car cause this is my first time experiencing this as all my dogs before her loved the car
Take a look at the steps in that video to slowly expose her to the car in a way that helps her build confidence and doesn't push her too far too fast.