Stop Motion Sickness: Helping Your Puppy or Dog Love the Car #75
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
DogsThat
4.8 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
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Car sickness in a dog or puppy can be heartbreaking. My puppy has been getting car sick, and I've been documenting what I've been doing to help her. If your puppy or dog is drooling in the car, refusing to get in the car, hates car rides, throwing up or foaming at the mouth when travelling, or showing any other sign of motion sickness, you are not alone.
In the episode you'll hear:
• The signs of car sickness in puppies and dogs.
• How I helped my puppy This! initially and what happened after lockdown.
• What motion sickness does to puppies and dogs.
• Why some puppies outgrow car sickness, but others do not.
• The importance of counter conditioning our dogs for travelling.
• How the sight of a car can bring on sickness for a puppy.
• About changing our dog's emotional response to the car.
• What I have been doing with my puppy to help her with car rides.
• How I became a canine booster seat.
• Why I didn't turn on the car for a week and how games are helping.
• About building up to longer drives in the car when there is motion sickness.
• Why I borrowed the confidence Tater has in the car to help my puppy.
• All the steps to creating a positive conditioned emotional response to the car for our dogs.
• Why to write to us about Home School the Dog.
Resources:
• YouTube Video: Let's Train Your Doodle with Susan Garrett - https://youtu.be/Ro_boHKLH5A
• Gunner Crate Crash Test - https://gunner.com/pages/crash-tested
• Podcast Episode 66: Resource Guarding: Dog vs Dog Aggression - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/66/
• Write to us at wag@dogsthat.com with the subject line "My Kids Are Going to Love This" for a special opportunity to join Home School the Dog.
• Susan Garrett's DogsThat YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC17PDLl8y1dP2BRV5vuseg
• Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/XXkPmR5am5U
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you've ever had a dog or a puppy that has routinely got car sick when you've |
| 0:16.2 | taken him for trips, you know how heartbreaking that can be. Well, today, I've got some help for you |
| 0:22.2 | because I've been documenting what I have been doing with my puppy who has been getting |
| 0:28.6 | car sick since she was quite wee. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And if you're |
| 0:35.5 | watching this on YouTube, go ahead and hit the like button right now. And also, if you're watching this on YouTube, go ahead and hit the like button right |
| 0:39.5 | now. And also, if you are watching this on YouTube or if you're listening to it, you are |
| 0:43.9 | going to want to jump over to YouTube and check out the live I did this weekend. I was helping |
| 0:50.1 | a friend with their brand new 12-week-old, well, let's call it a cockapoo or it could be a cockadoodle |
| 0:57.2 | depending on the way you look at things. So, the live is called help training your doodle, |
| 1:02.6 | but it's actually just all about some really, really great information about puppies. |
| 1:07.4 | In particular, I give a demonstration. I train the puppy and I help introduce |
| 1:13.5 | the puppy to my puppy this. And as long as we are talking puppies, I would like to read. |
| 1:19.2 | This is a letter that we got completely unsolicited. It was posted in our homeschool the dog group. |
| 1:24.7 | So I want to share with, this is particularly of interest |
| 1:27.6 | to any of you who have children. So, Carla wrote, hey, my six and eight year old boys are helping |
| 1:33.2 | train the puppy, so in homeschool the dog, are helping and love it. Especially love this program |
| 1:39.7 | because everything is in the format of games. The kids want to interact with a puppy constantly, |
| 1:45.6 | and this gives them fun and rewarding things to do with her. Remember, these kids are six |
| 1:50.3 | and eight years old. They love playing It's Your Choice in Hot Zone. Those are two of our games |
| 1:55.0 | in homeschool the dog with her. And most recent favorite is the Muffington game. The little one |
| 2:00.3 | does just as good a job with her little brother as with her big most recent favorite is the muffin tin game. The little one does just as good a job |
| 2:01.8 | with her little brother as with her big brother. They see what I do and they're able to copy it. |
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