Car sick

[Malenie Piscetelli]

Does anyone ever use thundershirt anxiety for car ride? Does it works?

[Leslie, Yogi & Maci Bear]

I can't help with the car ride question, but we do use the thunder shirt for Yogi for separation anxiety. It doesn't cure it, but instead of him drooling to the point of the floor being wet, his neck, legs, and feet... He only has his beard wet.

I wasn't sure how much it was helping so I left it off the other day, wow what a difference it did make!

Hope this helps

[Rae]

The Thunder Shirt is one of the best purchases we ever made for our Bella. It not only helped on car rides when she was a baby but REALLY helped when she had GM Seizures. We ended up with 4 shirts...one in the car, one in each part of the house she was mostly in and one near the back door in case a seizure started when she was in the back yard. They really calmed her down. We donated the ones she outgrew to our local shelter.

[Diane, Baker & Oskar]

Oskar has car anxiety only when my husband is along...we think he's afraid of my husband leaving him...he trembles, crawls in the front seat & wants to jump out when the door opens. I would say the thunder shirt helped relieve about 50% of the anxiety. We'll definitely keep using it...also got some Xanax from the vet which we haven't tried yet.

[Brittney Dickson]

Just bought one for car sickness/anxiety. I'll let everyone know how it works. I had no idea Xanax could work on dogs !

[Malenie Piscetelli]

Please let me know. Lucy hates to go in the car and car sick. Thank you. :)

[Rosemary (Ro) and Enzo]

You may want to just sit in the car first. Let them get accustomed to being in the car without movement.
Then start with extremely short rides....building up the ride times.
Many puppies experience car sickness, but outgrow with age.
LOL...my now passed Golden decided to yak in my brand new Vette...not 2 days old. Christened it well! Not sure if that rug was ever the same! ;)

[Kelly & Zoe]

We did all of those things and 90% of the time the car rides are to fun places, but Zoe still gets sick in the car on most rides over 20 minutes.  We tried harnesses, sitting with her in the front and back, her bed, we make sure she has plenty of air - everything.  We now have a collapsible crate in the back seat (we have an extended cab truck where the back seats fold up) and usually she just lies down in the crate, and this has definitely helped somewhat.  I think at this point (9 1/2 months) it's true car sickness.  We bought these homeopathic chews for car sickness that work some of the time.  We've come to expect it, we lay down towels around her crate and if she yaks we just pick up the towel and lay another one down.

It will be interesting to hear if the Thunder shirt works although I suspect that will help more for anxiety than for actual car sickness.