Poor Poppy

We are trying to get Poppy used to going in the car. We put her in the back of the car and she seemed fine, no nervousness or anything, we started the engine and everything was fine. She has been for drives a few times in the front sitting at Doug's feed, she has fussed a little (ignoring the howling when we brought her home as that was different) but nothing too bad. So we decided she was ready to go in her crate in the back of Martha and took her for a trip just to the end of the drive, she wasn't happy. We went back to just sitting in the car and she was fine, so we decided we needed to try again with the driving and that maybe a slightly longer journey would give her time to relax in to it. We put her in the crate, she seemed quite relaxed (see below) and set off to Labassère which is about 3km away.

Unfortunately she still hated it and barked and barked, then on the way back had a bit of an accident. Cleaning it up was quite traumatic as she stepped in it and managed to spread it EVERYWHERE and then sprayed it on Doug as she leapt from the back of the car in her enthusism to get out.

We are not quite sure what to do now, perhaps return to her sitting with Doug until she is more comfortable with the whole thing then try again. We are all keen to avoid the poo shower re-occuring