16/08/2026
ROADTRIP! 🐾🚙….& the perfect time for some “Desensitisation Training”!!
Did you know that anything…EVERYTHING can be made into an opportunity to train your dog?
Think simple, small and mundane…
Even something as simple as a trip in the car!
What?! How?!
Desensitisation Training is working with the senses!
So allll those little things we might not even realise are happening in a car on the road could be very
VERY STIMULATING for your pup…
From-
- podcasts/ radio - sound/ people
(For my CD this is like a car-lullaby!)
- a road trip sing along (love it!) - human behaviour/ unpredictable/ loud
- the windows up/ down- wind. Noise
- other cars and big trucks/ hydraulic brakes- loud noises
- the vibration of the car on the road- feel/ touch
- windshield wipers-
-RAIN! - environmental / smell
- occasional road rage. - unpredictable human behaviour
- a honking horn- loud noises
- the indicator clicking
- speeding up/ slowing down, making turns. - feel/ touch
- in our case - a quick trip to the mechanic mid road trip. - smell.
- alll while being patted, touched, fed, looked at etcetera.
SO MUCH happens in a car from a 10 minute errand to a 3 hour road trip.
Asking the dog to regulate their nervous system and use all of their many senses while remaining calm and still and even simply have a nap while there’s so much stimulation around them.
IS A HUGE TASK!
Trips in the car are an under valued training tool to help expose and desensitise your puppy to the SMALL stuff.
Get your dog
COMFORTABLE BEING UNCOMFORTABLE.
Go for a drive today.
