In Car Behavior - weird
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She's herding. Mo did the same thing the first few times. I ended up putting her in a crate in the car. She was safer, I was safer. In time she outgrew this..................except  except the time I had to take her buddy Sam to the vet and leave him. Since she was always with Sam, of course she came with us. Oh, the noise she made on the way home, "MOM, you left Sam behind! We have to go back!!"
Put your little darling in a crate....secure the crate least she tip it over. If you don't have room for a crate, get a doggie seat belt. It won't stop the barking....a muzzle would...but maybe being confined will be enough. |
| Yea, Clyde did this and they need to be crated as soon as possible. Clyde got worse where he would bark and chase. He was older and we tried seat belts , bark collar and muzzle. But he finally settled with a combo of belt and muzzle. Then we were able to take muzzle off and he was good. But his crate was so large it didn't fit in all cars. |
My childhood sheepdog Muffy did this without the snapping. We loved it and made a game of it. 
She would sit in the middle of the back seat and then rush to the back left wingow to lunge at the car. Then she would rush back to the middle of the seat to "watch" for the next one. We would get her all into it..."Are you ready, ready, ready ....GET IT!" "Here comes another one!" She loved bye-bye. I guess because she didn't bark or snap we found it kind of endearing.  |
Not that I would suggest this - but Winston does the same thing when we are driving and he sees cattle on the side of the road- don't ask how we figured this out, but if we roll the windows down as we pass the cattle- he does nothing! Sits there like a perfect boy and just watches them.  The crate idea might be your best bet. Good luck! |
| Mulligan gets all excited and jumps around and barks.
Jake used to lunge and we were convinced he was going through the window (he wasn't the brightest bulb in the pack). For both we try to control it the best we could/can both verbally and with the leash. It's not exactly a "losing battle" but we are fighting it to a standstill. |
| Thank you all for the ideas. I don't think I could fit her crate in the car so I will look into a doggie seat belt. We don't have a muzzle for her but I suppose that may help with the snapping. She doesn't really bark at the cars, just lunges, snaps, and occasionally hits her head on the window (the drool accumulation on that window is always horrible!!). Heck, we might as well try rolling the window down when a vehicle is going to pass too!! The only thing that worries me about rolling the window down is that she lunges so hard at the window I would be afraid she would try to jump out!!! |
Jack Attack wrote: Thank you all for the ideas. I don't think I could fit her crate in the car so I will look into a doggie seat belt. We don't have a muzzle for her but I suppose that may help with the snapping. She doesn't really bark at the cars, just lunges, snaps, and occasionally hits her head on the window (the drool accumulation on that window is always horrible!!). Heck, we might as well try rolling the window down when a vehicle is going to pass too!! The only thing that worries me about rolling the window down is that she lunges so hard at the window I would be afraid she would try to jump out!!!
Try the seat belt. Please don't try the rolling the window down - I shouldn't have mentioned it - we just happened to notice one day that Winston sat quietly and watched the cattle when the windows were down - but that he would go crazy when the windows were up. We also lived near a cattle ranch in Montana and he used to walk by the cattle and totally ignore them. I could never figure what was up with that.
Good Luck.  |
| Good luck! The doggy seat belt sounds like a great place to start. |
| Maggie does this too -- and with the windows open it can be scary because sometimes looks like she will throw herself out the window. I've learned to keep the windows open but high enough so that she can't get out.
Oddly, when she sees a bus or a big loud truck, she slinks down onto the floor of the car, hiding in the foot well til its safe to come back out. |
| Simon HATES, HATES, HATES motorcycles, people walking, or just standing there and people riding bikes....when he's in the car. When he's out of the car he just hates motorcycles and sometimes bikes.
My response is 'KNOCK IT OFF' The full service car was that I go to tell me the inside of my windows are more dirty then the outside |
| I had a male named Randy some years ago who used to go out of his way to scare motorcycle riders. I'm certain it was deliberate.
When we went for a ride in the car, he often sat in the seat with his head outside the window like a lot of dogs do. But if my car was about to overtake a motorcycle, he would get real quiet and intent on it, staring at the bike until we just, but not quite, drew up next to it. Then he would suddenly let out an incredibly loud and deep "WOOF!". Just one. The kind of very deep, big-dog woof that an adult male OES can do but that you rarely hear coming from your own dog. Usually the unsuspecting rider got big start, sometimes making his bike wobble and weave. Randy would see this and then make little excited hops on his forefeet in glee. He wouldn't bark again except for that once, but he sure seemed pleased with himself whenever he got the rider to jump out of his skin. I was always a little afraid, though, that one time he might actually cause a rider to spill if he was the jumpy type. |
| this is not herding behavior. they can all learn not to do this some may be reacting from fear, some aggressiona dn some because they have learned it gets a great reaction. these are not acceptable behaviors. we have an irish setter that need to be medicated to be in the car becasue of severe seperation anxiety. he exhibits similar behaviors. try not reacting at all when they behave inappropriately and praising them for being good.
the younger they are when you train this out of them the better. |
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