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One thing not mentioned here so far, is clean up. We have had 8 Golden Retrievers over the years, and our last pair had visited 40 states and 2 provinces of Canada with us. The new Golden is 5 months old, and threw up a few times on our first trips. The key is to not feed them the morning of your trip, but give them small amounts of treats as you go, and if they do throw up, we have them in a crate with the plastic pan tray that comes out, and we always travel with spare towels, and paper towels, and a couple of gallons of water. Just pull over, throw the soiled towel or towels in a garbage bag, and seal it up, and take the pan tray out, and just wash it down on the side of the road, and put it back in with a fresh towel, and you are good to go. They usually do not want to throw up in their crate, but if they do, it is much easier to clean up, than if it is all over your back seat. They will definitely get used to driving and stop throwing up. It might take half a dozen long trips or so, but they will get over it. Once you are certain they are done with this, you can take the crate away, and give them the run of the whole back seat. Never gave any of our dogs drugs, just let them get used to driving, they will figure it out.