My 10 week old lab keeps getting car sick.
He was fine for a week but now keeps being sick.
I have tried moving him from the boot (where he was on his bed, behind a dog guard) to the front seat where there is less movement of the car and this so far has enabled me to do short journeys, he is not bothered by the car and happily sleeps. (eventually I plan to harness him in the back when travelling)
On longer journeys (80 miles) he throws up his dinner.
I live approx 1 hour and 40 min away from my family and it will be a regular journy home for me and my dog.

( i am feeding him burns mini bites and I am also worried about all the food he is missing when he is sick, as I dont let him eat it up again)

appart from in the car he has only been sick once and that was full of grass and moss from the garden.

he also eats really fast (about 10 seconds to finish each meal) and gives himself the hiccups should i try to slow this down

my 17 week old pup is the same. what i tend to do is withhold food intill after the journey. i found that benji then was not sick as he had an empty stomach. also allowing him to sip at water helped as well.

Hi ibid,

Give your puppy some more time - it's good that he is already OK on short trips but, just like children having motion sickness on longer journeys, it is very common for young dogs to feel queezy in the car. 

If you have to make regular 80 mile trips while he is still so young, perhaps best to not feed him for at least 4, preferably 6 hours before the journey.  If possible, make some regular stops where he can stretch his legs, get a bit of fresh air and give any feelings of nausea time to subside.  Make sure he always has water ;)

It would be better if you could avoid and then only gradually work towards lengthy trips at the moment so that he doesn't begin to associate the car with feeling sick.

HTH, Teri :) 

Hello if poss sit the pup on the car floor on newspaper. Something to do with the news paper. works for humans also. My grannys old car sick remedy. It works. Honest.

LOL, I had a Border Collie once who was dreadfully car sick, and unfortunately I had no car so had to take the bus everywhere. Getting to dog training involved 2 buses. My way to do it was to bring a bag of newspapers, spread the newspapers on the floor of the bus, and she'd sit on them. It usually only took 5 minutes before she was sick on them. Then I could bundle them up to bin when I got off the bus, and start all over again on the next bus!

Mariane

HI Ibid,

Teri has given some good advice. Pup is still young, just keep car journeys short and make sure there is always exciting at the end of the car journey so that he can associate it with good things. Avoid feeding a few hours beforehand. By the way, nothing wrong with letting him eat it again. My puppy has been sick twice and she ate is straight away with no bad effects. This also ensures that your puppy is getting the nutrition it wants. It may be yucky to us, but perfectly normal to dogs.

One very important thing to bear in mind, is how you drive. At first you may be careful and take the turnings nice and slow, but after 20 mins we tend to revert to faster driving, thus moving your pup about alot more.

Key is to keep the short and fun (and drive slowly).

All the best,
Patty

Plug in DAP defusers (or the DAP spray) can be useful for car sick dogs.

This post is of interest to me too because I have a 16 week old westie who is terribly car sick even for a 10 min drive. He hates the car, wimpers all the time. I took him on a 25 min drive the other day to a pet shop to have his harness fitted and he was sick 6 times!!! I drove very slowly and carefully and my daughter was sitting with him in the back of the car. (I havent put him in the front due to air bag)

I am interested in the DAP diffuser - what is this?

I was going to take him to the vet to get some motion sickness tabs but if there is a non med way which would work that would be great. Please advice?

Our pup is the same (or should say was) i invested in some Natures answer K-9 travel ease it has ginger and valerian in it,it has helped her immensely she was at the stage where she was refusing to get into the car,and she weighs 5 stone already at 5 mnths,today we took her on a long journey to see her breeder and meet up with her sister,it is about 60 miles,no probs gave her light breakfast early thismorning and some of this medicine,she was fine and by the end of the day getting in the car on her own no probs,mentioned it to breeder who said they do grow out of it and apparently ginger biscuits are very good,so i will be giving them a try,by the way you can get tablets a lot cheaper same ingredients i found the amount of tablets needed and the trouble to get it down was more hassle,the liquid has a pump dispenser and is £6.99 from pets at home.

thanks for all you advice.

thanks for all your advice.