Crazy behavior in Car

My 3 year old sheepie Harry gets way crazy in the car... always when a motorcycle and bicycle go by. He will sometimes get crazy when a car goes by, but not always. He barks very loud, jumps at windows and will jump back and forth from the trunk area of my SUV to the back seat. It gets very frustrating !! Does anyone else expierence this?
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herding instinct.....sounds like a candidate for herding trials! It does slow down with time, but you may have to take drastic actions.....doggie seat belt or even a wire crate to contain this missle in the car.

MO was my missle.......finally broke it by putting her and 5 other dogs in the same van......no room to move and she eventually forgot about herding the cars down the highway.
Our Clare has done this since Will died at age 10. Clare is 3. Our solution was a small squirt bottle with 2 people in the front seat and as a car or bike was seen tp be coming say no and give her a squirt when it got to her. It works
Our 3 year old Molly does this, and has done this since we rescued her at age 1. We go on 2+ hour drives every weekend, and she LOVES to go in the car.

The only "non-human intervention" solution we've found is to use a doggy seat belt attached to a floor anchor, so she can't see out the windows. She still barks, occasionally, but it's 99% less than when she had access to the windows and would carry on any time a truck or motorcycle went by.
Our dogs that do this are crated with a cloth over the crate - they feel more secure and do not stress out.
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