Hello friends! It's the holiday season and my husband and I are wanting to fly home to see family and it will be Bella's
first plane ride. However, I'm terribly nervous! Bella is THE WORST car traveler and I'm afraid that the plane ride is going to be the same way. She shakes
sooo badly and is terrified the entire trip.
When moving from OK to FL she shook the entire duration of the trip (not once we were out of the car though). The vet we had in OK even prescribed her Acepromazine for our long trip to FL and it did nothing for her besides make her woozy and unable to walk. She NEVER feel asleep and she shook the entire time. We even upped the dose (recommended by the Dr of course) and it still didn't help. Prior to moving to FL we took a 4 hour car ride to visit family & to get her use to being in the car for a longer period of time since we would be going to FL a month later. For that trip the Dr gave her Alprazolam. She still shook, was woozy, unable to walk and never relaxed nor feel asleep. Even now I take her in the car as often as I can, but she still will not get over the fear & shaking. Both BIG trips we tried everything from having her in her pet taxi to holding her to wrapping her in a blanket to making her wear her t-shirt. Nothing helped. With all of that being said, I was wondering if anyone else had this problem with their precious doll(s) and was wondering for some suggestions on what to ask the vet about this time around with traveling. I didn't know if there was a "valium" for dogs, or if the Acepromazine & Alprazolam were supposed to be that. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!