This girl just hopped in to our bed to say good night. She is such a little lover and is guaranteed to make her new family laugh.
Magnolia experiences motion sickness. We had a few car rides up north with Dramamine that helped, but overall, this hasn't been consistent. Sometimes it works, but most of the time it didn't. We reached out to DDR and they worked with their vets to prescribe Magnolia Cerenia. This medication did work, however, there are some parameters we found made our journey up to the cabin successful.
1) Cerenia must be given with a small amount of food 2 hours prior to travel, so planning ahead on car rides will be necessary. 2) One side effect of the medication is loose stools. The first time we tried the Cerenia, she did have an accident in the car as a result within the first half hour of the ride. On our next car trip, we experimented with stopping for a bathroom break about 25 minutes into the drive and this worked PERFECTLY! She had a bowel movement outside, and rested comfortable the rest of the ride home. So in a nutshell, we at least found a way that Maggie can travel without getting car sick! Yes, it will take planning to travel with her, but IT CAN BE DONE! YAY!!! Big break through!!! We continue to work hard on walks with Magnolia. We have made improvements and she will take treats and give us some of her attention. We have be doing short walks and keeping them positive. Sometimes on longer walks there is just too much stimulation with other dogs, squirrels, bunnies, and she gets over excited and her pulling and focus get worse. We've also experimented with a few different harness and collar combinations and the one pictured seems to be working best. She is a smart girl and even if a dog isn't out, she remembers where she saw a dog last time and we see her get a bit amped up in anticipation for the dog to possibly appear. We have some new meds to try for her motion sickness, so hopefully those will improve her ability to travel more comfortably so we can take her some new places to walk and explore. P.S. We think her little lower back spot is adorable. She loves getting pets there.
While we had a nice, sunny day, we decided to try some Halloween costumes on Maggie. Which is your favorite- Pumpkin, Gladiator Chariot, or Bunny?
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