Does your baby get anxious in the car?

[Maxi]

Hey everyone. I was wondering if your yorkie gets anxious in the car and what do you do about it? I had Maxi since he was a puppy and tried to have him in the car as much as I could so he gets used to it. He was fine but then now he developed this anxious behavior. Its either he is excited when we go somewhere or nervous. He whines and looks in the windows as soon as we stop on the signal lights as of he wants to know where we are and why are we stopping. When I drive on the highways he is fine sitting or laying down in his car seat. Once I get to my destination he is running around and then crash because of being anxious in the car. On the way home he is fine sleeping in his car seat. I want to put a stop to it because I dont want him to lose all his nervs. I found in dog catalog few things like a spray and gel that makes dogs relax in a stressful situations. It says it is made out of natural pheromonoes and doesnt have any toxics. It is made for travel, new enviroment, trip to the vet and so on. I wonder if anyone use this?

[mminichan]

Originally Posted by Maxi

Hey everyone. I was wondering if your yorkie gets anxious in the car and what do you do about it? I had Maxi since he was a puppy and tried to have him in the car as much as I could so he gets used to it. He was fine but then now he developed this anxious behavior. Its either he is excited when we go somewhere or nervous. He whines and looks in the windows as soon as we stop on the signal lights as of he wants to know where we are and why are we stopping. When I drive on the highways he is fine sitting or laying down in his car seat. Once I get to my destination he is running around and then crash because of being anxious in the car. On the way home he is fine sleeping in his car seat. I want to put a stop to it because I dont want him to lose all his nervs. I found in dog catalog few things like a spray and gel that makes dogs relax in a stressful situations. It says it is made out of natural pheromonoes and doesnt have any toxics. It is made for travel, new enviroment, trip to the vet and so on. I wonder if anyone use this?

Chloe gets sooo nervous with car ride too and she still is !! She threw up twice on our way to Chicago from Indy (about 3 hours drive - one way) She always whin and shake for hours! I asked my vet and he prescribed acepromazine for carsick.

Check out this thread for more info....

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=108881

I have no idea about the spray..can you post a link to that product?

[nvnvgirl]

I think it's a fairly common problem with a lot of us here. I had the same experience as you have had. When Max was a baby, we rented a big car to drive about a 10 hour drive. He was PERFECT the entire way there and home; slept like a baby either on a blanket on the seat between us (didn't know about carseats then) or in his bed on the back seat. Once he got a little older, he started shaking, panting, whining, etc whenever we got into the car. The interesting this is that when we're just in town, he's perfectly FINE on the way home.
We have taken him on several of the long trips and I'm just not sure what it is that is making him nervous. I first thought it was b/c my dh always starts an argument when we're getting ready to go anywhere far away;then I thought it was b/c our car was not a great big sedan, then I thought it was b/c he didn't like the sound of the big trucks on the freeway....
I have tried almost everything that's OTC....Rescue Remedy, some pills called "Content-Um", Benadryl liquid, and some pills called "Quiet Moments"....NOTHING has done any good that I can tell. Our last trip, I gave Max the Quiet Moments, and he wasn't TOO anxious, but I think it was just a fluke; once we got to where we were going, I had to take a few hour long trips and he was just as anxious as ever and he was relatively anxious on the way home too. So I just don't know. It seems like he's not quite as bad if I hold him on my lap (only I have to set his carrier with a foam insert in and some other soft items so he's about at my chest level, leaning against me the entire time, and he'll relax a little bit. He isn't any less anxious sitting in a console car seat and my dh freaks out if Max is anxious and he's driving. I have figured that Max seems to have survived his anxiety this long with no problems and I don't want to totally drug him, so I just try to keep him as calm as I can. I hope someone has something else they can suggest, but this is my experience thus far. Maybe they're just so small that it's not fun for them to see things flying by them; I always wonder about the dogs who LOVE to go for rides and sit in the seat with their tongues hanging out, LOL....anything so I don't have to hold him up for 10 hours!

[Maxi]

thanks. I really dont want to give him pills thats why I found that spray that just makes them relaxed naturally without any toxics and stuff. My baby shakes too thats why I think is just he is being nervous so I was thinking that this spray will help. It says that you spray on his fav things like his bed or his carseat and it makes them relax

[nvnvgirl]

Originally Posted by mminichan

Chloe gets sooo nervous with car ride too and she still is !! She threw up twice on our way to Chicago from Indy (about 3 hours drive - one way) She always whin and shake for hours! I asked my vet and he prescribed acepromazine for carsick.

Check out this thread for more info....

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=108881

I have no idea about the spray..can you post a link to that product?

Luckily, my Max doesn't throw up! That would REALLY bum me out! I'm going to check into your vet's suggestion. Thank you!

[chachi]

My Jewels gets really anxious and sometimes gets sick in the car. I havent found anything to help it so I really dont take her on car rides unless I really have to. Chachi my other yorkie however loves to go on car rides. They are all so different

[Maxi]

Oh I know what you mean exacly! Maxi does this panting shaking and whining. Its funny that you mentioned the console seat cause I was thinking to get that one so Maxi is closer to me. Hm probably that wont help cause you dog would still whine and pant. Ok here is the spray that I found. Its called Comfort Zone its says that the scent mimics natural pheromones that secreted by nursing mother dogs, sending a signal of comfort and safety to her puppies. When your dog senses the pheromone he feels secure and comfortable, reducing his urge to act out destructively through chewing, barking, whining or house soiling. It says that it is developed by veterinarians and behaviorists in Europe and these were proved remarkable effective. I am willing to try this the thing is it is kind of expensive the spray is 30 bucks.

[girltime]

Originally Posted by Maxi

Hey everyone. I was wondering if your yorkie gets anxious in the car and what do you do about it? I had Maxi since he was a puppy and tried to have him in the car as much as I could so he gets used to it. He was fine but then now he developed this anxious behavior. Its either he is excited when we go somewhere or nervous. He whines and looks in the windows as soon as we stop on the signal lights as of he wants to know where we are and why are we stopping. When I drive on the highways he is fine sitting or laying down in his car seat. Once I get to my destination he is running around and then crash because of being anxious in the car. On the way home he is fine sleeping in his car seat. I want to put a stop to it because I dont want him to lose all his nervs. I found in dog catalog few things like a spray and gel that makes dogs relax in a stressful situations. It says it is made out of natural pheromonoes and doesnt have any toxics. It is made for travel, new enviroment, trip to the vet and so on. I wonder if anyone use this?

Rocky is 4 years old and from day 1 he has always gotten car sick. With him I always have to make sure he travels on a lite stomach. Daisy is 3 years old and she never has gotten sick once.

Rocky has a nervous type personality, and Daisy is very relaxed.

[GinosMommy]

Gino gets a bit nervous when he cant sit in my lap, which is never! They just dont understand when you tell them "thats dangerous, little man!"

[adorame]

So far Jeter does great with car rides. He gets excited when I tell him we are going bye bye and he starts jumping around like a mad man.

[MissSophie]

Your comment about him getting anxious when you stepped on the brake is interesting. Our baby loves to go for a ride in the car and loves to bark at anything she sees while riding. She also will sit on my lap and sleep an entire trip if we are on an interstate. However, as soon as the brake is touched, she has to sit up and look out. She doesn't get nervous, but she has to see what is happening. She can be completely out, but that brake goes on, even slightly, and she is up and looking out the window.

[Erin]

Originally Posted by GinosMommy

Gino gets a bit nervous when he cant sit in my lap, which is never! They just dont understand when you tell them "thats dangerous, little man!"

Now that mine are used to riding in car seats they are actually more anxious riding on a lap. They prefer their seats. It took them a while to be like this though. When you get in the car stick a bunch of TINY treats in his seat and let him sniff around to get them all, or give him a bully stick or a kong. Something that means car=yummy treats!

[nvnvgirl]

Originally Posted by MissSophie

Your comment about him getting anxious when you stepped on the brake is interesting. Our baby loves to go for a ride in the car and loves to bark at anything she sees while riding. She also will sit on my lap and sleep an entire trip if we are on an interstate. However, as soon as the brake is touched, she has to sit up and look out. She doesn't get nervous, but she has to see what is happening. She can be completely out, but that brake goes on, even slightly, and she is up and looking out the window.

Max is more alert too, whenever you either put the brake on or stop. I could hang with him just doing that, but having to hold him all the time is really kind of exhausting, even though he's small. I think I'll give the spray a try.
I also kind of wonder, after reading mmini's thread where alaskayorkie mentioned that one of his dogs reacted badly (sounds like he was hallucinating to me) to the other medication she'd mentioned (ace....something?); if maybe when I gave my Max a couple of the things I mentioned earlier, they weren't part of the reason he was so anxious? I mean, he DOES the shaking thing almost everytime we get in the car, but the panting and whining I just wonder if it's not a side effect of the stuff I gave him? It's so hard to know sometimes.

Re: the console car seat: I think it's always worth a try, b/c like Chachi said "they're all so different". I've read from some people that they had excellent results using a console car seat.

I'm going to at least try the spray around town and see if it helps.

[Maxi]

Hmm interesting about the treats yeah I ll try that but I tried his favorite toys and that didnt work lol so maybe treats will...

[BubblPopElectrc]

I'm lucky in that Britney and Brooklyn do great in the great. I travel a lot so I'm very thankful that they do so well. Britney sometimes gets a little antsy, but not to bad. Brooklyn sleeps the entire time.