My puppy has been fine with the car since day 1. However she has been in the car yesterday and today and done this excessive drooling thing and then been sick.

The only thing I can think of that has changed is on Tues night I took her to training and her dog bag fell over on the way back. (It is normally held in back in Zafia with one really back seat up - hubby put it in and I didn't notice really back seat was away)

Could this of started car sickness? I am eager to sort as quick as possible because we love taking her to places in the car. She has been fine with the car up until now (5 months!)

If she has been ok up until now I would imagine its not your typical car sickness as I have found that it starts from day 1 although other may say different.

dont Panic....
Dont really understand your explanation of why you think she was drooling ...sorry :)

Try not feeding her and taking short journeys to nice places ie: park have a play then come home

If you search 'car sickness' there have been umpteen threads on this subject for you to browse.

Roni

My sisters Shelti use to drool lots before he was sick in the car, lots of news paper and put him in his crate that helped him.  He did take a while before he was better, lots of short journeys to start with.  We even fed him in there aswell for a while with the engine running, but going no where.  Poor thing it is awful to feel car sick, i use to as a kid.

ginger biscuits  always works with my pups

I'm going to try these Sam. How many do you give and when? I have a 30+ Kg GR puppy.

lori, get plain old gingernuts & i wouldgive 2 or 3 before you set out & another 2 or 3 on the journey....works a treat!

Just curious, this wasn't the first car trip to training was it? I ask because you probably stuffed lots of training treats in her during class and she possibly hasn't travelled with that full a tummy before. Or maybe you used a new type of treat during class? My dog gets car sick just looking at the car; always has. He threw up on the way home from the breeders. I consider it a really good trip if he only gets as far as the buckets of drool. If he eats then he's much worse.

No it wasn't first trip to training. She wasn't sick on the way back but it is only a very short trip. I thought that the dogbag tipping over might have frightened her and this is now causing the travel sickness?

The drooling comes before the sickness - really lots of drool more than she ever does at home.

Is there anything else that could be causing this?

She has been fine at home - as normal, and always was fine in car up until yesterday.

could it be that she is not actually feeling sick but that the dog bag falling over has frightened her so much that this is producing the drooling and then she is working her self in  to a state and then is sick in the end. - have you tried her on a short journey out of the bag and then you might see if it is actually car sickness

just a suggestion
anna

Good point!...no I didn't think to do that! :)

Is excessive drooling a sign of fear?

Update...I have taken her out in the car with her on back seat with teenage son. Fine, no drooling. We then put her in 'really back' of car and she started drooling within 2 minutes of driving. Back to being with son and fine again.

Could be with son = feeling safe or maybe because she could see out of window when in with son and not when in 'really back'? I hope it is cos she feel safe with son. Going to start a programe tomorrow of short journeys! :)

how about trying a car harness. with no one sitting with her and then you will find out whether it is fear or car sick. if she is fine with harness and noone with her hey presto no need for hard work. if it is fear you will need to work on it still but at least you will know. and if it is car sick could you just stick with a harness.

it could be that she is just remembering her dog bag falling over and just remembering it as a dark space hence the boot being a problem.

let me know how you get on :)
good luck

I was looking at a vet site today for something else and noticed an article on car sickness. This guy seemed to think it was fear more than motion that made them sick. It was the internet so get your big grain of salt out. However, when I take my carsick by on longer trips I put the back seats down so he can get behind me in the estate and hasn't been fully sick for a few trips now. So, maybe it is more fear related. The short trips to nice places has really helped him. I drive to training class instead of walking for 10 minutes just so he gets that weekly rewarding trip. I'm going to add ginger biscuits to the program - thanks Sam.