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Location: UK
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Thanks everyone...We are still persisting with trying to get Keena used to the car...My other half has time off from work and so we have been able to spend even more time trying to get over the car thing with her. She is actually getting slightly better.
When we started with taking her out in the car we really couldn't get further than five minuets down the road before she was sick, we always made sure we took her out two hours or more after she had eaten but like clockwork she hurled everytime.
We are finding that she is much better now the weather is colder. In the hot weather we did make sure we were constantly on the move with our windows open and the car was well ventilated but with no ac things still get a little warm which seemed to bring the sickness on even faster, probably due to more rapid breathing while she was panting.
She then built up to being able to travell about 5-10 minuets then getting out and having a good walk with the same amount of journey back home but wouldn't quite make it on the return, to where she would be sick just as we pulled up outside of the house!
We are now making it a good 20 minuets out and having a walk and then all the way home too! so bit by bit she is getting better.
The thing is now though that although she isn't being sick quite so fast she still has the terrible drooling problem and it's not just a little bit that you would get with normal panting with some dogs I mean it is constant to where she completly soaks the towels right through that we put down for her and soaks the front of her self. Of course we make sure she gets plenty to drink afterwards but this is the part that really bothers me because I just feel sorry for her. Her ears go down and she just looks real poorly and sad and I really can't believe just how much saliva she can loose.
She sounds alot like Storm wolfie, as soon as she knows that you want her to get in the car she puts on her brakes and tries to pull away so one of us just gets in the car first on the opposite side and then she does get in of her own accord just to be with us. When we get to where we are going, always for a good walk, as soon as she is out of the car she bounces back in minuets but when we are ready to get back in she sometimes starts her drooling before we even get in the car at the mear sight of it.
I do think she will get over it sometime in the future as she is lasting longer and making some progress and I guess the drooling may stop when she has made enough journeys without being sick and maybe she will forget to make the association and the drooling may be part of the anticipation of being sick so that might stop too.
I just hope she does get over it soon because there is a whole world out there that we want to show her and she really does have so much fun on the walks we take her to, I don't want her to be limited with just the same old local walks because she loves to explore new places.
Weren't 'sea legs' for people?...lol