Really quickly, dogs are like, uh-huh, I know what this means when we go to the car,

the same as they know, uh-huh, I don't know what that means when you put a lead on me.

And they start getting this fizzy energy or they start getting stressed maybe, if, you know,

walks are stressful for them or the car's stressful for them.

And they just anticipate that something is going to happen.

The car becomes such an event.

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exciting part of their world. Okay, we've got a question from a student. I think it's a brilliant question.

Sam, you struggled with this. I know how I work with this. Do you have any tips for building calmness in the car? Also in the camper van when we're driving. She does sometimes settle when stationary. So this is a real life student. She's, her name's Britta, amazing student, and she's asked us about car trouble.

Now, what's your experience with cars?

Because you actually spent quite a lot of time in your car.

What do you have?

I've got a camper van.

I built myself.

I was living a dream, ladies and gentlemen.

She's living in the dream.

Okay, so like I've got two JetRessel Terriers, one in particular gets car sick.

And so very, very quickly, she started to not like the car as a result.

And she also didn't really at that point have like crates or anything like that.

And so the car just became a really, really stressful place.

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