Days later, Dreyer said the dog was dead from hyperventilation. More Italian greyhounds were brought to the apartment by Thompson in the weeks and months that followed, and nearly all mysteriously disappeared, Dreyer said.

Dreyer testified today in Ingham County’s 55th District Court in the preliminary hearing for Thompson — a former MSU graduate student facing 13 counts of animal killing/torture in both Meridian Township and East Lansing.

After hearing Dreyer’s testimony, Judge Donald Allen made the decision to bind over ten counts in the Meridian Township case to Lansing’s 30th Circuit Court, dropping one count based on a lack of testimony on the count.

“I think I feel comfortable enough (given the testimony I’ve heard)…to bind over the charges,” Allen said.

Thompson’s attorney, Stacia Buchanan, said after the hearing she will have to review paperwork and testimony before filing her next motion.

No date has been set for further action on the case.

Seven counts in the Meridian Township case previously had been sent back to district court from the 30th Circuit Court after Judge Paula Manderfield ruled previous testimony by Thompson’s friend, David Albers, inadmissible because Albers was unable to appear at the initial preliminary hearing.

Thompson still faces two charges in East Lansing in connection with the alleged killing of two other dogs at his East Lansing apartment, 220 M.A.C Ave. Thompson previously was suspended from MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine pending results of the case before leaving the university earlier this year.

Dreyer said he saw as many as nine Italian greyhounds disappear after Thompson brought them to their apartment starting in December 2010, but stopped telling his parents out of fear of Thompson after the third pet disappeared. Thompson told Dreyer one of the dogs was given to a friend in medical school, but Dreyer said he does not know what happened to many of the other dogs.

Thompson had the same names for several different dogs, including two different greyhounds named Chloe and three who went by slight variations of either Angie or Angelino, Dreyer said, despite noticeable physical variations.

Once a dog disappeared, a different dog sometimes was brought in by Thompson and given the same name. One dog — the second dog named Chloe — had a much smaller head than the first dog with that same name, something Dreyer said he clearly noticed.

At one point, Dreyer said he saw Thompson throw one of the greyhounds — either the second or third dog named Angie or Angelino — across the room after it bit him on the nose.

“I was shocked, I didn’t even know what to say,” Dreyer said. “I was a little furious at the time, that I just saw him throw a dog across the room.”

Dreyer said he although he did not see any dogs actually die other than the first one, he did see two dogs after they had died, including one that was left on the floor of Thompson’s bedroom for about a day before Dreyer said Thompson removed the animal from his room.

Most days, Dreyer testified he did not see the dogs, except when Thompson was sitting with them on the couch.

Still, Buchanan argued that the mere knowledge of dogs living in the apartment and then disappearing does not implicate Thompson.

“We still don’t have any evidence that Mr. Thompson killed these animals,” she told Judge Donald Allen.

Buchanan also said there were inconsistencies with three previous interviews Dreyer had given to Ingham County Animal Control Deputy Jodi LeBombard regarding the case.

LeBombard interviewed Dreyer after animal control officials raided the apartment he shared with Thompson this past June.

In a previous interview with animal control, Dreyer said he had seen as many as 15 dogs brought to the residence by Thompson.

LeBombard eventually testified earlier this year in the case, stating that Thompson confessed to killing all of the dogs at his Okemos apartment and disposing of their bodies in a dumpster behind his apartment.

Dreyer testified today he saw Thompson take the third dog he had brought to the residence out of the apartment in a black garbage bag after it had died.

Thompson has been staying with friends in Okemos since Oct. 10, when 10 percent of his total bond in both cases of $50,000 was posted. He must follow a curfew of between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and wear a GPS tether.