Nearly 7 million dogs suffer from this heart disease. This woman helped bring a life-saving procedure to Florida
Julieanne Schmidt says her dog Dutch isn’t just a pet -- he’s part of the family.
“He’s like my second heart,” Schmidt said. She rescued Dutch from an animal shelter after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2006. She said Dutch is like no other dog she’s ever owned.
So when the now 13-year-old miniature schnauzer was diagnosed with congestive heart failure early last year, Schmidt decided she would do whatever it took to help her dog get better.
“We just knew we couldn’t see him suffer and die,” she said. “He would just basically stop breathing and his heart would stop and I couldn’t bear that.”