[Lovetodream88]

I need some opinions. We travel at least once a year if not two or three times a year to go over to West Virginia (5 hour trip) where both my uncles live and we pretty much have to be prepared to go over at anytime we are needed because of the health of one of my uncles. Well Callie at home sleeps in a soft sided dog house and we have our little nightly ritual every night and she goes into her house with no problem and stays in there and sleeps all night. Well when we travel at night she gets extremely hyper sometimes humping, running around jumping up and down off the bed, getting so hyper she starts panting and neither of us get a lot of sleep because it can sometimes take her 2 hours to calm down. The last few times I kinda make her lay next to me in the bed and have to hold her and rub her there until she finally falls asleep. I have tried a travel fold up comfy dog bed, a nap pad, setting up tons of blankets on the extra bed nothing seems to work. The last time we went we stayed in my aunt and uncles basement it was my mom, dad, Sammy, Callie and me and even though Sammy curled up and went straight to sleep Callie didnt calm down. I think shes acting up because its not sticking to the nightly ritual which is always done at home and also clues her in to it being bed time. I can stick to pretty much the ritual when we are away except for the going to bed in her house. Although her house zips down and folds up I am scared something might happen to it and it has nothing to put it in to make easy to carry so I was looking at the fold up soft crates online and am thinking about getting one of those. Do you think that the problem is not sticking to her normal night time ritual? Do you think that a soft crate could work as like a substitute? Does anyone have any other suggestions? We will be traveling over in May and in every other way Callie is an awesome traveler.