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Mark Dickherber and his wife, Stephanie Hoff, of
Chesterfield, left their 7-year-old Italian greyhound, Cisco, with a
family member when they went on vacation in 2009. Concerned that the dog
seemed abnormally tired and somewhat despondent, Cisco’s dog sitter took
him to his veterinarian. The vet treated Cisco for what was believed to
be a muscle injury and sent him home. However, his condition failed to
improve. On the morning Dickherber and Hoff
were scheduled to return to St. Louis, the Italian greyhound began
urinating blood.
Upon
hearing the news, the couple went directly from the airport to the
veterinary clinic where their ailing pet was again being treated, this
time with blood transfusions.
“He would
respond just a little to the transfusions,” Dickherber
said. “We were told we needed to get him to a specialist. We didn’t
understand the seriousness of the disease.”
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