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We're going to my wife's family in East Texas for Christmas and taking our dog.  It's about a 4.5 hour trip, and every time she throws up on the way.  Even if we don't feed her before we hit the road she still vomits.  We always end up stopping at Buc-cee's in Madisonville and buying a new towel for the inside of her crate.  Would a mild sedative help?  I've read that benadryl might also make them sleepy and calm.  Tips?

Yeah - Call your vet and go pick up some sedatives.  You want the dog awake enough to get in and out of the car without injury to them or you (if its big), but calmed down.

Or you can take a sedative and not care what happens and let your wife deal with the puke.....either or.....

we use 1/2 a tablet of 1mg melatonin with one of our dogs for 4th July and NYE for fireworks. She weighs about 13#.  That dose calms her for 3-4 hours

it does not put her to sleep, but keeps her racing heart from jumping out of her chest.  It helps her on road trips when we have taken her to Lubbock.

She doesn't get pukey and can still function( walk, go pee, etc.)

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CBD gummies from your local vape shop.  Work like magic every 2-4 hrs and really no way to overdose.  

Benadryl works too.   We have to give a few tabs to my Lab on the 4th and NYE due to fireworks.   It calms her down enough to where she's not wanting to jump on our laps or it we are gone, not chewing the door knobs.  Why she does that is beyond me?  

2 hours ago, South Austin said:

We're going to my wife's family in East Texas for Christmas and taking our dog.  It's about a 4.5 hour trip, and every time she throws up on the way.  Even if we don't feed her before we hit the road she still vomits.  We always end up stopping at Buc-cee's in Madisonville and buying a new towel for the inside of her crate.  Would a mild sedative help?  I've read that benadryl might also make them sleepy and calm.  Tips?

On these road trips, which variety of shitty music do you blast through the car?

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21 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

On these road trips, which variety of shitty music do you blast through the car?

Asia's Greatest Hits.  Why do you ask?

Call vet. Doggy xanax. Will calm dog down and ease nausea. 

Lol @ CBD gummies. I guess if you like wasting money and good CBD. 

2 hours ago, South Austin said:

Asia's Greatest Hits.  Why do you ask?

Holy shit.  Does that exist?  Is it 3 songs? 

Fuck, "Don't Cry" is now stuck in my head.  

Anyway, I'd buy it for the bizarre sci-fi album cover artwork alone.  

We have a little dog who gets “road anxiety”. He will start barking in the car and never stop until he gets out. Before our trip to Colorado we got a prescription medicine from the vet that worked well. Basically it made the dog very groggy such that he had no energy to bark. I’ll try to find the name of the medicine.

At least you don’t have a cat. That trip from Austin to Phoenix was a fucking nightmare for me.

Acepromazine

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Appreciate all the suggestions, except for tying my dog to the bumper. (Do you know what the penalty for animal cruelty is in this state?)  Our vet suggested we give Benadryl a shot, so we’ll see how that works.

On 12/20/2018 at 8:27 AM, South Austin said:

We're going to my wife's family in East Texas for Christmas and taking our dog.  It's about a 4.5 hour trip, and every time she throws up on the way.  Even if we don't feed her before we hit the road she still vomits...

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Your wife sounds disgusting.

Appreciate all the suggestions, except for tying my dog to the bumper. (Do you know what the penalty for animal cruelty is in this state?)


9mm is humane
On 12/20/2018 at 5:54 PM, youdunnf'dup said:

At least you don’t have a cat. That trip from Austin to Phoenix was a fucking nightmare for me.

Ha, my family did a trip like that with the cat. It meowed without stop the entire trip.

On 12/20/2018 at 9:43 AM, Liquor and Poker said:

CBD gummies from your local vape shop.  Work like magic every 2-4 hrs and really no way to overdose.  

I wanna come back as your dog in my next life......

13 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

I wanna come back as your dog in my next life......

 

6 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

I wanna come back as your dog in my next life......

he didn't tell you about the peanut butter saturday night sessions, still interested?

14 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

 


9mm is humane

 

9mm? Why waste a fun round like that. .22 should get the job done just fine. 

7 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

I wanna come back as your dog in my next life......

He’s cool.  It’s all cool. 

And a giant tub of CBD gummies is like $25.  No way you get past your vet with meds for under $100. 

then the dog gets its own bag of Doritos for the trip, right?

Just now, slorch said:

then the dog gets its own bag of Doritos for the trip, right?

He has a little lava lamp too.  

On 12/21/2018 at 5:58 AM, South Austin said:

Appreciate all the suggestions, except for tying my dog to the bumper. (Do you know what the penalty for animal cruelty is in this state?)  Our vet suggested we give Benadryl a shot, so we’ll see how that works.

Benadryl does nothing to my dogs, but they are both really big spazzes.  

Benadryl does nothing to my dogs, but they are both really big spazzes.  


Dogs need higher doses of Benadryl fyi.
6 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:

 


Dogs need higher doses of Benadryl fyi.

 

We give Zeus 8 at a time.  I think he could eat the entire bottle and it wouldn't phase him.  

for kids the dosage is by weight, and age is a factor.  probably should ask your vet how much benadryl for X pounds of dog.

Benadryl did not calm my dog down.

Our Schnauzer terrier (not my choice) is immune to every medicine mentioned in this thread so far. Shakes uncontrollably from anxiety when traveling, even if in someone's lap with a blanket over him. Only thing that works is a human-sized dose of Dramamine. There are guides online for dosage size per lb of dog.

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