improving the lives of pets outdoors

As you can see this big puppy had really outgrown her house!

This is Denali and she lives WAAAYYY up north in Alaska and even though she is a very furry Malamute, her family wanted her to have shelter since she outside pretty much all of the time, so they reached out to Straw For Dogs for help with a new/bigger insulated house for her.

Thank you to Alaska Airlines and our friend Ben for helping us get this house up to Miss Denali! Without the help and donations from the airlines we could only provide a fraction of the houses we provide.

These donations and discounts allow us stretch our funding to help more dogs living outside in Alaska have insulated houses and straw to shelter them from our harsh climate.

If you would like to help Straw For Dogs continue this work please donate at www.strawfordogs.org. Every dollar helps!

This sweet boy is Nanook, he was living outside 24/7 in Northwest Alaska with only a kennel/(basically nothing) for shelter. A compassionate neighbor reached out to Straw For Dogs to see if she could ask for a house for this dog even though she was not his owner.

YES this can be done. All we asked was for her to make sure her neighbor would accept the house and use it if we send it. Not only did she initiate the request for assistance for Nanook, she made sure the house was picked up at the airport and set up for her neighbor. She also had someone send pictures to us (a little blurry but you can see Nanook is trying out his new house).

Nanook's owners were very grateful and said he loves his house and after 2 weeks he seemed much happier and his coat looked thicker and healthier.

If you see a dog in need please reach out to us. YES you can request on behalf of someone else. We just ask that you make sure the house will be used if we send it out and of course we love to see pictures if possible.

Thank you to Northern Air Cargo and Ryan Air, INC. for sending this house out for us. We are so grateful to all the air carriers who donate shipping to us. We could not help as many dogs without this very generous donation.

If you would like to contribute to our mission of helping dogs who live outside in Alaska you can donate at www.strawfordogs.org
We are all volunteer, there are no paid positions here....and your donations are tax deductible.

Thank you Kris Capps!

Posting screen shots in case people cannot use the link. I think you have to have a subscription to see the article online.

https://www.newsminer.com/news/kris_capps/straw-for-dogs-provides-shelter-for-pet-dogs/article_91da240c-cbc4-11ef-96f8-a75ae392383e.html

Time to file for your 2025 PFD!

If you would like to help Straw For Dogs continue to supply insulated dog houses and straw to dogs who live outside in Alaska, please consider donating to us when you apply for your PFD using Pick Click Give. We are so grateful for any and all support.

If you have RECEIVED a dog house and/or supplies from Straw For Dogs, you can pay it forward and help more dogs like yours get insulated houses and straw. Please consider donating to us when you apply for your PFD using Pick Click Give. Any amount will help and you won't even notice it is gone.

Straw For Dogs is an all volunteer non-profit, we have no paid positions, 99.9% of all donations go toward our mission of providing shelter to dogs living outside in Alaska.

https://www.pickclickgive.org/how-to-pick-click-give/

Thank you Desert Air Transport for taking a load of 6 insulated dog houses and bales of straw our to out dog friends in Western Alaska.

The dog loving angels at Desert Air have sent out over 20 houses for Straw For Dogs this year. They have never turned us away when we have asked for help.

Please thank Desert Air Transport for their generosity and compassion! Support the businesses that support the animals! They are wonderful people and we are so grateful for their help, we could not do what we do without the donations from the air carriers.

If you would like to help Straw For Dogs continue to provide more insulated dog houses and straw to dogs living outside in Alaska with no shelter please donate at www.strawfordogs.org

Thank you!

Thank you so much to BERING AIR and Everts Air for helping us get a house out to this sweet girl who was out in northwest Alaska with NO shelter at all. I cannot imagine how miserable it would be to have no escape from the wind, snow, and bitter cold. Those days are over for this girl.

We agree with everyone who is going to post that no dog should ever live outside in Alaska without shelter but the fact is that many of them do... and this is what we can do to provide IMMEDIATE help for them. Everything else will take time, education, and support. It takes time to help people understand there are different ways of doing things other than "the way it's always been done."

Most of the people asking Straw For Dogs for houses have gotten our information from someone we have already helped, which means people are talking about better options for their dogs. They are sharing new ideas and resources like ours to help transition to higher standards of care for their dogs. It is still FAR FAR FAR from perfect but we are slowly moving in the right direction.

It isn't only about the cold, it is about loneliness too. Dogs want to be with their people, nobody wants to live tied up outside used as an alarm to bark if someone comes on the property. A dog can bark just as well from inside the house as they can from outside. They can still hear everything, they don't need to be outside to be a guard dog.

Changing this way of thinking will take time, so for now we will continue to send out as many houses as we can to those living outside suffering in the cold. But we look forward to the day when our services are no longer needed because all dogs live as part of the family.