Hi

We're going to collect our wee pup shortly, but it'll mean a 3 hour drive home

What do we do regarding toilet stops, for the dog

On the ground on paper, in the car on paper or what ??

How many stops ?

thanks

Hi..
i wondered the same thing when i bought my puppy home nearly 5 mths ago at age 8 wks. i just put a black bin bag on my knee with a towel on top and placed puppy on top of that. ours was a 3 hour drive home aswell, so i was more concerned about keeping him calm and not stressed. and if he pee'd the towel would soak it up but not seep throu to me :-) as it happens he slept most of the way home anyway with only a little bit of howling :D

We had a 4 hr drive, pup remained asleep almost the whole journey and wee'd in his sleep on a towel lol :D. I was all prepared with paper aswell :(

Hi, We had a 6 hour trip home with my puppy. He slept almost the whole way home curled up on my lap! But when we stopped for a break, i put some paper down and he did a wee on there. We stopped twice, mainly for us though, i think he would of slept the whole way if he could! :-)

HTH, Let us all know how you get on!! What breed are you getting?? I bet you are VERY excited!! :D :D

I'm worried a bit about the journey home we pick molly up a week today :)  our journey is about 3 hours hopefully she should be ok the kids are coming so we'll have to stop anyway. just hope she doesn't have travel sickness:(

She may have travel sickness, but like some have said if everything is kept calm in the car then she will probably sleep most of the way home anyway :) Just take lots of kitchen towel along :)

I was worried about that too. But we took plenty of kitchen roll, some old towels and some baby wipes, just incase! ;-)

We planned for a three hour journey home with our two but due to unforseen circumstances (driver missed the motorway junction to turn off) the journey ended up being much longer!  

We had black sacks (in case of accidents), towels, nappy sacks, newspaper and the pups lay down on vet bedding on our laps...Despite the delay in the journey, neither puppy did a wee or a poo on the way home but waited until we took them into the garden as soon as we arrived home...Not bad for 7 week old puppies...We had taken water with us to give the puppies during the journey but neither had a drink, so if the breeder had limited fluid intake and then the puppies didn't have any water for several hours perhaps that explains why there was no urination or defaecation in our friends new sports car!!!

Hey ! thanks for all your great replies.

We're getting a dalmatian, Winston is his name ... he's very cute and even has 4 spots on his tail. His 4 brothers were all boring, with plain white tails LOL !

Kind regards

My poor Yankee was sick all the way home (Leicestershire to London!!), but none of our dogs have wanted to wee on the way home as puppies.

I'm quite concerned about the number of posters who travel with a pup on their knee.  Would you do that with a baby?

I thought that the dangers of having things unrestrained (people, pets or parcels) is well known and documented.  Not only are my dogs too precious to put them at risk by leaving them unrestrained in the car, but my passengers are too who would be at risk from them in case of an accident.

I'm sure it isn't a regular thing, just for the journey home...

Clunk Click EVERY trip!

I knew that was coming

We travelled home with the pups on our knees because this was recommended by the breeder...For their second journey in the car they had seatbelt harnesses ;-)

Even a minor shunt at 20 miles an hour would be sufficient to throw the puppy forward with enough force to kill it and there is absolutely no way anyone could hold onto it as the persons arms will also be thrown forward.  I think even for one journey this is an enormous risk and imagine the horror of being responsible for something happening like that on the very first day you have your beloved pup.  Even if you are the greatest driver in the world you are sharing the road with others who aren't ;)  Nobody would take a new born baby home without a safe carryseat fitted infact don't all maternity hospitals insist on it these days?  I would not let a puppy leave my home without being in a crate or travel box secured with a seat belt that way I know that they are then set up for all future journeys as well.  I can't really understand if safer arrangements are planned for the future why take such a risk with the very first one?  

Snap Lucy, all ours have being sick on the journey home but none have needed poos or wees, they all settled down and slept....then were taken straight to their toilet area, not performed, taken inside and promptly weed all over the floor :D

We brought Idõ home on a cardboard box which was belted onto the back seat, my mam sat with him just incase there was any mess or he got distressed but he was fine, he had a nice soft fleece to lie on and the high side will have made him feel secure. I lined it with a sheet of plastic and a towel but he never had an accident in the box and he travelled in it for a good few weeks without a problem, if anything it taught him to settle quickly when he got in the car.

Roy came up from Cornwall in a crate(toy sized)to Leicester & the next day from Leicester to Selby in same crate & then home in my Lintran box, no poos no pees & no sick :D he has only been sick once after he had pinched my cavaliers breakfast(unbeknown to me)& I would never ever travel a puppy or adult any way other than a crate/transit box

We bought leo up from gloucester to coventry - couple of hours up and he slept the whole way, at about 4 or 5 months we took him to scotland - 6 hour drive and we stopped a lot but he point blank refused to go to the toilet until he got there and found a "garden" because he knows thats where he goes

My dogs breeder held on to him until Lintran could deliver our transit box. 

Well said Isabel, you are absolutely right.

Absolutely - we borrowed a large cat carrier and had it strapped onto the back seat with daughter sitting next to it so that she could keep an eye on our pup :) The puppy was perfectly happy all the way from Yorkshire to Essex :) As you say - accidents are just as likely to happen on that first trip as they are on any other :(

Daisy