Train Your Dog to Take Car Rides in Comfort

Part of the fun of owning a dog is to be able to take him or her on road trips or short trips with you in the car. Unfortunately not all dogs ride in cars well. Some may whine, drool and even vomit from car sickness. Other dogs will ride happily without a problem at all.

Above Photo Courtesy of The Yuppy Puppy

There are ways to teach your dog to ride comfortable in the car. It is easiest to teach young puppies to ride in cars, and wise to start your new puppy riding in a car early. However, older dogs can also be trained to ride in cars happily.

You can either step by step gradually introduce your dog to the car or counter condition that changes your dog's emotional response from negative to positive.

How severely your dog reacts to riding in the car will determine where to start training. It might be a few feet from the car or longer. You first must determine the point where your dog is comfortable and relaxed then move closer and closer. 

At each stage, have healthy and delicious treats, a toy or a meal waiting for times in which he shows no anxiety or fear. You can even play games with your dog along the way to make it seem like a fun thing you and he are doing together. Only move closer when your dog is completely relaxed at the current stage. A sign your dog is not ready to move closer is that he stops playing or eating. If this occurs, take a step or two backward until the dog relaxes then start again. 

Remember every dog is different. It might take a few minutes for some and with others days of training. Just be patient and move toward the car at your dog's pace.

Your next steps involve adding other elements that precede the actual ride. These include:

• sitting in the driver's seat
• closing the doors
• making the remote locks beep
• buckling seat belts
• starting radio or other music

Each step along the way requires lots of praise, fun times, and treats to reinforce the fact that "this is okay to do."

You might even toss some treats in the back seat for your dog to find once he or she is strapped in or as soon as he is in the position to go for a ride. Play some tug of war together to keep it a fun and happy time. Just don't move the car YET. Let your dog get use to the sounds of the engine with food, fun and games.

Once you get your dog to look forward to getting into the car, add the motion. Start with very short distances such as moving the car to the end of the driveway. Continue building the time spent moving in the car by short increments. Make every step of the way pleasant. If you can find a helper who will ride beside your dogs and continue playing or giving treats, this would be fabulous.

When you start traveling with your dog, choose destinations you know your dog will enjoy. You could drive to the park or the woods. Get out and allow your dog to play and explore before returning home.

If you will remain calm and patient, you will have your dog riding in the car and looking forward to the ride.

Tips to keep your dog from getting motion sickness:

• The car's inside temperature should be warm in cold seasons and cool in warm seasons
• Lower the windows to let some fresh air in
• Limit your dog's food and water for a few hours before the trip
• Ask your vet for motion sickness or anti-anxiety medicine
• Exercise your dog about twenty minutes before your trip to decrease stress
• Use a dog pheromones collar or spray to mimic the odor of a nursing mother dog. Pheromones mimic the odor of a nursing mother dog and can relax even an adult dog.

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How to Tell if Your Dogs are Wrestling for Fun or Are in a Knock Down, Drag Out Fight

How do you know if two dogs wrestling is just play time or actual fight to knock out time? The sounds and body language are very similar. You will hear and see:

Above Photo Courtesy of Rockstar Yorkies

• growling and snarling
• body-slamming
• biting of each other's necks

So what do  you do? Stop an innocent period of play time or separate a vicious attack on one another?

In fact, growling, snarling, body-slamming and even bites here and there is "normal dog play." Puppies learn this type of play from their own mother and litter mates. Puppies play with their litter mates continually. It is cute to watch. You know they are not going to hurt each other. Many times they don't even have all their teeth. Wrestling to a litter of puppies is almost as good as meal times. After a good meal, they say to each other, come on now see if you can lay me down and keep me down. It is a critical time for social development among their pack team. It is good exercise and fun to watch as well.  

Go on You tube and see how many views are attached to "puppies wrestling" with each other. However, as a new dog owner of more than one dog, you should try to learn the difference between innocent dog wrestling and a real knock down, drag out fight.

Here are behaviors that say it is good fun and playtime wrestling/fighting:

• Front end down, back end in the air indicates dog body language of "let's play." The dog trying to initiate play might slap his front legs down on the ground repeatedly.
• Big, silly open-mouthed grins indicate good fun play.
• Bouncing movements around each other that just looks like the dogs are acting silly.
• Exaggerated or loud continuous growling and snarling. Sometimes play growling sounds a little scarier than serious fighting.
• Dogs or puppies keep going back for more wrestling sessions. There might be one on its back, then in a few minutes the other one might be on his back.
• Dogs or puppies will voluntarily tell each other in the body language of falling down and exposing their bellies and allowing themselves to be caught when playing chase. 
• They take turns chasing each other.

The following behaviors are some of the signs that tell you this is not a game, but a real knock down, drag out fight:

• Dogs get very stiff. 
• Hair on dog's upper back is raised. You might not be able to readily see this if the dog's hair is long.
• The mouths are closed.
• The lips are curled up.
• You will hear a low warning growl.
• Dog movements will be quick and efficient. There will be no bouncing around and no taking turns.
• Ears will be pinned flat.
• Lips will be curled back and you will hear snarling. There are no big silly smiles as if the dogs are having fun.
• If true combat begins, hope it will be a short encounter. The loser will try to leave the area. They won't be going back for more play.
• One dog is trying to get away from the other dog. Body language is not happy and bouncy.
• Tails might be tucked in. This is an indication of fear. It might be just one dog with a tail tucked in or both dogs. This indicates they are not having fun, but are in a fearful battle with one another.

Of course, if you determine the wrestling match is not fun play time, you should attempt to separate the dogs from each other.

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IF  YOU RAISE PUPPIES, THE TYPE OF FOOD  YOU FEED AND SEND YOUR PUPPIES HOME ON IS A CRUCIAL DECISION. BE AHEAD OF YOUR COMPETITION AND DEVELOP A REPUTATION OF FEEDING THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF FOOD YOU MOST POSSIBLY CAN. WE NO LONGER HAVE TO RELY ON COMMERCIAL DOG FOODS PREPARED IN LARGE QUANTITIES AND STOCKPILED. WE CAN FEED OUR PETS FRESH FOOD EVERYDAY. TRY THE LIFE'S ABUNDANCE HEALTHY START PACK FOR ALL LIFE STAGES AND SAVE MONEY.

And even better is to feed dog products that will give you a "return" in money to the point you end up feeding your crew for FREE. Become a Life's Abundance Rep and feed your own crew using your down line and customer's residual income.

You will end up with a customer base that will put money back into your pocket that translates into eventually getting your dog products for FREE.

Continue adding reps under you and build your residual income for a lifetime while you raise puppies. When you are no longer able to raise puppies, perform dog training sessions, groom dogs, etc., a Life's Abundance business keeps you in the dog community helping dogs to live longer and healthier lives and continues to give you a residual income to spend on vacations, unexpected expenses, help you make ends meet in retirement and more. 

If Charity work with animals is something you love to do, you also gain by using Life's Abundance products. Using the Life's Abundance products is an excellent way of "giving back" to the pet community. Charitable work is at the core of the Life's Abundance mission. Every order placed contributes to homeless animals. The work is done through the non-profit branch of Life's Abundance.

There has never been a time in our history as it is today with technology at our fingertips to help us build 6 figure and higher incomes with a network marketing business.

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