My old girl loves straw, but I haven’t been able to find any good local clean straw this year. She’s has allergies so I stay away from hay for her. My dogs before her got hay in the houses and they were the same. I put her in the shed the first night because the wind was going to be blowing 20mph. The second night the wind was less than half, so I let her stay in her yard in her doghouse. She did fine.
When my old Bloodhound has his eye surgery (eyelid lift), I had to keep him in the house with a cone on his head. He got so hot that he had hot spots where the cone touched. The Vet office has unheated kennels so he spent the last week there. He bloated one winter so I covered my kennel with tarps and put him in there. It was my dog hospital. He lived to 12 and that’s really old for a 140-pound dog.
IMO for animal bedding, oat straw is the best. Soft, not too dusty and the stems are wide and flat, make excellent bedding. Wheat straw not so comfy or warm.