Comments on: 10 Tips To Take Your Dog from Homebody to Adventure Pup

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:23:52 +0000

I’ve been enjoying all of these Subaru contest posts, but I have to say, this one is the most helpful one I’ve read…and coming from someone who doesn’t have a car makes it all the more impressive. 🙂 It IS so important to make sure your dog likes to travel in the car before dragging them all over the place. Meadow used to get carsick, and it took some creativity on my husband’s part to realize it was because her crate was on a slant. Once he made a platform so that it sat level, and we put a yoga mat in it to keep her from sliding around, she got so much better. Now she rarely gets carsick unless we hit something like stop and go traffic. I don’t blame her. 🙂

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:02:06 +0000

Excellent tips! Another remedy that helps my crazy Labrador Maya, besides her dog car harness, is Travel Calm from Earth Heart. Maya loves the car ride so much that she can’t help but to whine and bark. So you can imagine how distracting that can be, especially when we take our annual road trips to Texas. But last year when I used this product, she was still happy about the car ride but she didn’t whine much at all.

By: Roberta

Roberta — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:24:32 +0000

Most of my dogs are straining at the front door as soon I bring out a leash, car rides included. Very good tips to remember when I meet up with one not so fond of riding.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:32:14 +0000

Being a Military family requires everyone to be adventurous 🙂 Luna has always done well in long car rides, and Penny took a little time getting used the the car. Your tips are all great – we have used some of them, and our Subaru Forester has proved to be a great car for our family.

By: houndstooth

houndstooth — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:53:55 +0000

Our dogs are all pretty natural travelers. The only one we’ve had to work with of our current pack is Blueberry. She inherited motion sensitivity from Lilac, but unlike her crotchety mother, Blue learned that it was worth it to be able to go to where we were going. She almost always asks to go along if she sees us getting ready to go somewhere. We definitely enjoy traveling with the dogs, though! I can’t imagine not taking them with us!

By: Dogs N Pawz

Dogs N Pawz — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:43:40 +0000

Mom made our driver’s licenses this morning! We are going on a road trip!!!!! Yay!!!!!

By: RumpyDog!

RumpyDog! — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:12:22 +0000

I LOVE to ride in the car… as long as it doesn’t stop at the vet clinic!

Can you hook Jen up with that renter representative in Florida? We’ve decided to just move and need some help negotiating breaking the lease. The owner is all for it, but still, we don’t trust him after the shenanigans he and his realtor have pulled so far.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:08:38 +0000

Those are really great tips. It never occurred to me to try the Thundershirt in the car (duh), but that may do the trick for my pup who dislikes the car!