Do you have a home and a bed to call your own? Do you have food to eat and all the love that you seek? Is life kind to you most of the time...? Now imagine if you had none of these things and, too, you were blind.  Add to that being beaten at every turn until all you could feel was the hurt from the burns. Wouldn't you want just one person to care...one kind angel you wouldn't have to beware...?

This was Irving's prayer. Irving, the blind, tortured pit bull who found that caring angel. Irving who is the inspiration for Irving House where animals like him are safe, cared for, and loved...

Meet Irving ~

Life on the street is hard. Life on the street when you can't see is a nightmare. This was Irving's life. Blind from retinal disease, Irving was abused, beaten and tossed to the street because he couldn't be made into a fighter. Helpless, Irving wandered the streets in search of any little kindness. What he found mostly was indifference. Sometimes, a kind person would offer him something to eat or maybe a cup of water but mostly this amazing dog survived on pure grit. It's a miracle that he managed to avoid the cars that sped along the highway as he'd work to get across the busy street, usually following the sun for any bit of warmth to ease the pains of his battered body. But one day, Irving's fortune changed when he was anonymously brought to a nearby shelter. There, Irving was met with untold kindness, and care, and above all love. He was safe...for the time being. As gentle and as loving as he proved to be, his special needs made it difficult to care for him as a shelter dog. He needed a forever home. Someplace where he could settle in without the daily confusion and frenzied pace of the shelter.  Irving needed a house...