improving the lives of pets outdoors

We LOVE that we are getting VIDEOS from people now! They are so much fun and we really get to see the personalities of the dogs ....is this guy not the cutest!

This cutie pie is Buddy! He lives in a small rural community in the Bethel region. Buddy's house was destroyed in the typhoon so his family reached out to Straw For Dogs for an insulated house and straw.

The family made us these amazing collages of his before and after pictures. Sometimes we NEVER even get a single after picture from people but Buddy's family went above and beyond...look at how great these are.

We think Mr. Buddy seems pretty happy with his new house and we are so privileged to be able to set him up with it. Thank you to Buddy's family for reaching out to Straw For Dogs to get their sweet puppy set up with his new house!

Thank you to everyone who donates to help us send help to the dogs living outside in Alaska. Thank you to Everts Air and Ryan Air, INC. for shipping this house out to Buddy. We are so grateful to all of you, we could not help as many dogs as we do without your support!

FYI Buddy was house #239 for 2025 but we have sent more since then, we are up to #259 so far for 2025! It has been CRAZY BUSY this year. In 2024 our total for the year was 213.

We are sending out A LOT of houses and we are trying to follow up with people to make sure they are getting built properly.

The number ONE thing we see is that the roofs are not seated all the way down. They can be kind of tricky. The fit is tight and sometimes you have to wiggle it, lift it, jostle it to get it to fall into place. They are made this way so that they do not have to be screwed down and can be lifted off to add or change straw.

IT IS IMPORTANT to get the roof on correctly so snow and rain do not go inside, and heat from the dog does not go outside.

The roof circled in RED is not seated properly, it is not on right. It is not always the whole roof sitting up like this, sometimes it is just a corner that needs to be dropped in. There should be no space between the top of the walls and the roof.

The roof circled in GREEN is on properly. The roof should basically touch the top of the walls ALL THE WAY AROUND on all sides.

Please take a look at your dog's house and make sure the roof is on the right way! If you went to all the trouble to get your dog a a new house, we may as well make sure the house is built correctly.

Thank you 🙏🏻

This handsome boy is Ghost! He lives in a rural community on St. Lawrence Island. A traveling nurse reached out to Straw For Dogs to get Ghost an insulated dog house and straw, she sponsored his house and even paid for part of the shipping costs to get this sweet puppy some shelter.

We are so grateful to all the traveling medical providers who are out there right now advocating for the dogs who need help! Cute little Ghost only had a broken pallet to rest on. (his chain is under the pallet, he does have more chain than what you can see, we asked). There are just so few resources in some of these remote communities, the dogs just get what is available, which is not much.

Thank you to Everts Air and BERING AIR for helping us get this house out to Ghost....We are hoping he will be much more comfortable now. He sure looks cuddly, somebody is very lucky to have this sweet puppy in their lives, we hope he gets the love and attention he and all dogs deserve.

There are still dogs in the evacuated villages who need to be rescued. Nobody seems to be working on this anymore. Please contact the legislators listed and advocate for these poor dogs who never should have been left behind to begin with. 🙏🏻

12 more insulated dog houses and straw are flying out of ANC on Wednesday!

3 to Napakiak, 2 to Koyuk, 4 to Shishmaref, 1 to Noatak, 1 to Kotzebue, and 1 to Pilot Station. I believe 6 of these houses are storm related. (While we are getting applications from storm victims we are also helping dogs who need houses unrelated to the storms too....like we always do).

Here are some more pictures of the building process at our builder Arctic Chicken Coops in Wasilla! They are working hard trying to meet the demand right now. Please be patient, we intent to help everyone who needs help.

If you know a dog who needs help or you would like to donate to support Straw For Dogs mission to provide resources to dogs living outside in Alaska please go to www.strawfordogs.org.

Thank you! 🙏

3 more insulated dog houses out in Shishmaref! Thank you to kind-hearted animal lovers Anita Powell and Scott Smith, two P.A.'s working in Shishmaref many more dogs have new dog houses and straw.

Not only did Anita and Scott, pay part of the shipping costs for many of the houses they have been picking up the bundles, building them, and distributing them throughout the community.

Anita and Scott delivered these houses over the weekend. They did not have a truck or trailer so they used cardboard to slide the houses to their new locations....Anita said it was their workout for the weekend.

Anita and Scott have become the Straw For Dogs representatives in Shishmaref, and we are so grateful they are there to help the dogs in need. They are coordinating all the logistics on the receiving end of the village, and helping people who may not be able to manage picking up and building the houses themselves.

Thank you to Ryan Air, INC.. and Everts Air for helping us get these latest 3 houses out to Shishmaref! We are so thankful for your suppport!

If you have a dog who needs help or you would like to donate to help Straw For Dogs continue our mission to provide resources to dogs living outside in Alaska please go to www.strawfordogs.org
Thank you! 🙏