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Brandon, hope your dog is feeling better. Would love to hear an update!
What would you consider “good” heart worm medication to be? Have you asked your vet about it? Usually when I research a product for my pet my vet has the final say. However, I do take reviews from other users of certain products into consideration too.
I agree with Daisy. Drive with your puppy from the start as soon as possible. I had a new puppy that became car sick from the trip to the breeder to my house. He was a blue heeler, so he always wanted to be with me. I just kept taking him in the car and he seemed to grow out of the car sickness. He was spoiled, always sat in the front passenger seat, window down.
I know this isn’t great advice if your dog is an adult and car sick. Vtec, I hope Miley is doing better with car rides. Let us know if any of the advice given above has been helpful! 🙂
Also, using the clicker is a better way to mold the behavior that you want from your dog. The dog learns that the clicker marks the wanted behavior. So, when the dog performs the wanted behavior the clicker can quickly mark the good behavior much faster than a food treat would. I hope this makes sense.
Example: Training my dog to “stick em up”. I can lure the dog into sitting pretty and then try to get him to put up his paws. The moment he puts up both his paws I click, then treat. He has learned that what he was doing at the moment of the click is the wanted behavior. This is a more precise way of training. If I had given him a treat after he put up his paws, he very well could have put his paws down right before the treat, and the wanted behavior would not have been as clearly marked.
I have a Chihuahua named Houdini