Volunteer to Assist
With
"Safehousing"
Legal consultation
Letter-writing,
etc.
Welcome to the Lexus Project
The Origin of the Lexus Project
In October 2009 a high prey greyhound named Lexus, having
been declared a vicious dog, sat on death row in a Rhode
Island kill shelter waiting to be put down. Her crime? Left
unleashed in a dog park she followed her instincts and
killed a Pomeranian puppy. (Small, long-haired dogs are
perceived by many greyhounds as prey; this is the
instinctive response of a sighthound.) The
greyhound was seized and her owner attended a hearing
without counsel and the judgment paved the way for her
execution.
Luckily for Lexus, Robin read her story on Greytalk and was
moved with her husband, Rich, an attorney, to fight for her
release. Thanks to a quirk in the Rhode Island statute he
was able (with the assistance of an attorney in Rhode Island
who also volunteered his time to file the Court papers) to
negotiate the release of Lexus from her cell and her removal
from the state. As she jumped into his van, snuggled up and
ate cookies, the idea of the Lexus project was born.
