improving the lives of pets outdoors

SO SORRY! We have not posted in over 2 WEEKS! Things have been very busy, we were gone the first week of December (probably will not do that again, we went from just after Thanksgiving when we left to oh my gosh it's almost Christmas when we returned).

While we were gone we had an amazing group from Anchorage from The Nordic Home do a fundraiser for us. Their goal was to make enough to ship a house out to the rural community. (This is usually at least $1,000 depending on which village the house is going to). They had no trouble meeting their goal and made the donation to us earlier this week.

We are always amazed by the people who hear about our mission and want to help us. We are incredibly grateful for their efforts and generosity.

The donation from this fundraiser is going to get a house to this dog who lives outside 24/7 in a Northwest village in Alaska. His house is already on the way.

Thank you The Nordic Home for your generous donation and for having such compassion hearts for the dogs who need help.

We will TRY our best to get a picture of this guy with his new house and do a follow up post. This photo is heartbreaking, I cannot imagine how miserable it must be to have no place to go to get out of the elements.

I want to say again as I have so many times before.....We wish no dogs EVER lived outside 24/7 in Alaska, we would rather they lived inside with their families, at least when they wanted to be inside. Unfortunately this is just not an option for many dogs, especially in the rural communities. We need to continue to work on changing what is seen as "normal or acceptable" living conditions for dogs. Dogs curled up outside in the freezing cold with no shelter should not be considered "normal or acceptable" living conditions.
We can do better than this.

So as we work to encourage people to provide a higher standard of care, we will keep sending insulated houses and straw out as fast as we can to help as many of these poor souls as possible. Thank you to everyone who supports us in this mission.

Thank you to The Nordic Home!

If you want to help Straw For Dogs with this mission you can donate at www.strawfordogs.org
Thank you!

A big thank you to ALASKA CENTRAL EXPRESS (ACE CARGO) for sending this sweet boy his very own house. We are so grateful to ACE for helping us get insulated houses out to dogs who need them. Our friends at ACE have never turned us away when we have asked for help.

Please support the businesses that support us! Thank ACE Air for helping Straw For Dogs get shelters out to dogs who need them.

This floofy guy named Avalanche isn't quite sure about his house yet, and he says, "this is the best picture you are going to get out of me, so I hope you like fuzzy butts!"

HOUSES ARE COMING! Hang on everyone who is waiting for houses! Our awesome builder and his awesome team are working as fast as they can to help us get caught up. In the meantime PLEASE do what you need to do to keep your dogs from freezing.

Thank you to all the air carriers who are donating shipping to help us get these houses out to dogs with NO shelter in the rural areas of Alaska. I cannot even imagine how miserable they must feel with no way to escape the cold.

Hopefully we get some good "after" pictures to follow so we can show the dogs in their new houses!