Just another quick one to show you Minti and Jaspa.....Jaspa I might add is sitting on my feet at the desk Jellybean is sitting in front of the heater with a kinda smugg look on her face ,I'm sure she thinks they are her pups lol as does Lili anyway here are todays snaps xx and still working on the travel sickness arrgggghhhh, the back of ute in crate no better than in the car on knee or floor .....and jaspa is very hard to get pics of...always on the move and i never have the camera when he is being cute , or i've just turned it off grr :)

What nice looking pups. I really like the look of their dad, he looks like my kind of dog :-)

Do the breeders here find carsickness common in very young pups? My experience has been that it occurs a little bit later, generally not on the first drive home.

How old are they? Usually prior to about 8-9wks pups are more resiliant (probably not strictly true - it's just that they aren't developed enough to recognise what they 'ought' to be afraid of, and that has an important evolutionary purpose) but if they're that age, I would think they were probably stressed by the car travel and that was what caused the vomiting.

I must have been lucky with my puppies as they have never experience car sickness motion. Zorro when I first bought him home was a 2 hour car trip, with Ceejay well I went to Echuca and came back with her to Calliope Qld. With never a problem, she actually used to bark and whinge to let you know that she needed to go to the toilet. So maybe some dogs are just more susceptable to motion sickness than others? Bit like human folk I should suspect.

By the way I love the names that you gave to the pups. There seems to be a food theme going in some of the names Jellybean and Minti. lol. Hmmm I am off to grab a snack.

When it (car sickness) starts a bit later it's usually thought to be related to maturation (or lack thereof) of the balance organs, so I'm not sure about why some pups get it and some don't. Perhaps they are just physically different, perhaps experience is making the difference???

The type of car you drive can also make a really big difference, and I suspect, the type of roads you drive on.

So Jaffa lost out and now he's Jasper...... I like it.

Can't see the photos, sorry mate, dial up!

Any chance of reducing them to around 100kb, or just send them through to the gmail account, can't wait to see them.

Did Mick have anymore left, got another bloke over your way looking for one that's handy for sheep, he's booked one of ours, but if i can get him one local it will save him the trip and extra cost.

Car sickness has never been an issue with our guys, we get them out early and take them everywhere, most people who purchase from us are going to be traveling a long way, like Ceejay, so we try to harden them up to avoid any yucky situations.

God it would be a bit hard on the working dog if it did suffer from car sickness.
Try a little ginger before you go out, it has been known to have remarkable results, you can try ginger biscuits that may help.
Also just sitting in the car with the pup for a while and allowing them to get used to the smell, helps, then backing out and driving back to help him adjust, then move up to small trips and as he improves lengthen the trips, this has also had good results.

Good luck

I do the same thing. They start traveling too and fro at 3 weeks so they are seasoned travellers before they leave home. Mikki's first litter of puppies was born starting during Cyclone Larry so they travelled from day one backwards and forwards... by the time they left home about 6 or 7 weeks, they would see me pick up the keys and head for the back of the ute and look up. Smart little beggers.

I know this is totally off topic but Kooliemum what is in your avatar? It looks like you must have thrown an assignment out? Just being a sticky beak.

Sorry about the off topic situation but it is driving me crazy trying to figure out what it is.

Ginger does work well with tummy upsets I use it for myself when I am feeling slightly off colour.

Hmm I was wondering too!!!

Some people think that dogs get sick from watching the very fast trees go past but pups usually don't focus on that! They possibly may not have travelled previously so lots of short trips. Paxy came a long way by car and was fine in the crate it was once I put her in a harness that she started whining and crying. During puppy preschool found that a pigs ear was a great way to occupy her so she didn't take any notice of being in the car. Also we did lots of short trips, but she still won't jump in the car, I have to lift her big bum in!

It's the memorial to the anti-Nazi group the White Rose at Munich University - it's a representation of the pamphlets that Sophie Scholl threw over a balcony that got them caught and executed. (Since seeing the end of the movie about them a few wks ago I've become slightly obsessed with her.)

Feel so sorry for for your dog getting car sick, I get it &, depending on the day, it can range from slight through to feeling like death warmed up. Got told when I was younger that I'd grow out of it, yeah right, I apparently didn't grow enough . Hope your poor dog does grow out of it, pebbles drooled real bad when we got her but after a lot of very short trips in the car she's fine now.