Suggestions needed please. Puppy coming home.

[Fools Motto]

OK, so some of you know, ''we're'' getting a new pup.

Latest query I would like to know, is, how to travel pup back home?
The journey is about 3 hours with no traffic.
The pup has been to the vets with the breeder, and travelled on towels in the boot of her car.
The pup is used to being in a play pen.

So, options are -
On towels, on lap on front seat.
In crate, on towels in boot.
In crate, on towels on back seat with either one of my children or OH (while I drive), ''entertaining'' pup.
On towels in front passenger foot well.

I've brought my now old dog home, on my lap with a towel (11 years ago), but the journey was only 30 mins.

I don't think I can cope with pup on my lap for any longer than 30 mins, I get cramp, but above all won't feel very well if I'm sicked on lots or poo'd on!

Also, another question is, as she isn't yet vaccinated, and we need to stop, can we let her toilet outside?

What do you all do?
Thanks in advance

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Towel, front seat is how I travelled the last pup. He was fine. It was only 90 minutes. I had a disaster bringing the other pups home, only an hour or so, but I stupidly put them in a carry box, they puked constantly, we stopped to clean, they puked, pooed all the way. Their first stop at home was the bath. Not good. My original pups, they travelled loose in the boot of the Jeep and were fine. Occasional cuddles on a 3.5 hour journey.

I would try not to stop, personally, I'd rather a mess in the car than risk exposing her to anything. Take a chew toy or three to keep her occupied.

If you have a big crate, that would be my top option: I took Milo everywhere in the boot with the seats down, in the big crate. Just line with lots of newspaper and get home as quickly as possible, change the paper if necessary. Have a bottle of water and a plastic bowl to use to offer occasionally if/when you stop.

 

[galaxy]

I recently did 4 hours home with new pup. I was on back seat with him. Towels everywhere including floor! And a cardboard box that he could choose to sleep in.

He had one wee about half hour after we left and then slept most of the journey!

No I wouldn't and didn't stop on way home. Vaccinations and also has pup been on a lead and collar yet? It would prob be too stressful for all.

 

[minesadouble]

We did a 3 hour (possibly a bit more) trip home with our 7 week old pup on daughter's knee, with towel on back seat. No wees or pukes, he grumbled a bit, wriggled a bit and slept a bit but all in all was absolutely fine.
Good luck with your pup.

 

[Chiffy]

Before I moved up to Scotland my daughter travelled a scottish bred flatcoat puppy down to me in Hertfordshire. Puppy was 10weeks and had never been in a car. She travelled in the boot part of a 4x4 in a crate with newspaper and a bed in it. She stopped with her twice at service areas and carried her to a patch of grass where she duly performed.( her brilliant breeder had already taught her what grass was for. She was not sick, nor made any mess, the only thing she did was 'sing' when she wasn't sleeping. This was a 7 hour journey. I think this shows from other stories above that every pup is different. Good Luck!

 

[twiggy2]

a crate in the boots with towels and covered with a blanket-safest way, don't stop to clear up mess just go straight home, if you suffer even a fairly minor bump with a puppy on a seat and the pup falls they can suffer serious injury, they are also such a distraction for the driver. Taking the puppy out and putting it on the ground to relieve itself is putting it at huge risk from all manner of disease too unless it is an older puppy and has been fully vaccinated.
Arrive at the breeders and spend an hour playing with the puppy hopefully it will then sleep for most of the journey once settled, ask the breeder if you can have 2 items with the litters sent on them and place only one in the crate-then you have a spare clean one for when you get home.

My lurcher bitch came from Wales to Gatwick airport in a wooden dog box, I then collected her from there and put her straight in a crate in the boot of my car and drove from the to near Chelmsford Essex, she had peed in the box but was settled in my car and bounced out to say hello to my dog s on arrival-she was 8 weeks old and she always travelled well her whole life.

 

[AandK]

We did a 3 hour (possibly a bit more) trip home with our 7 week old pup on daughter's knee, with towel on back seat. No wees or pukes, he grumbled a bit, wriggled a bit and slept a bit but all in all was absolutely fine.
Good luck with your pup.

Same here when I got my old boy as a pup over 13yrs ago. Was a 4hr journey back from Blackburn, and as I recall, he slept pretty much the whole journey home on my lap, no accidents.