Car Sick

[Heather]

My "Oliver" gets car sick on long trips. He is fine on short trips around town. It's only 2 times now on a 5-7 hour trip. We tried Dramamine and not feeding him. So far neither has helped. The vet thinks he'll grow out of it, since he just turned "1". I would LOVE any helpful suggestions!!!

[Heather]

Do you feed him before long trips? Oliver also does the salivating first. Window open and distracting him does seem to help.

[nate]

we don't feed meals -- we feed 'snacks' and shifts. 

normally he eats 3.3 cups of Orijen in 2-3 shifts a day.

on a 13 hour car ride, breakfast is water + 1/3 cup ; every 2-3 hours we'd stop and give him some more food and water  -- then a big meal at the destination. 

we also feed him junk food -- trader joes has these "organic brown rice & chicken" dog treats.  we use them for training.  in the car, we can give him little bites throughout the trip, and he has no problem keeping them in.

[Heather]

Thinking Oliver might do better with a little food in his stomach. I did give him some Stella & Chewy freeze dried chicken in the morning and then fed him his dinner as soon as we got home!!! I feel so bad for him. Hoping he grows out of it. He is very tall and the vet said that makes it worse, throws off their equalibrium in the car a bit!!!