Featured Story: Dirk

In October of 2001, when my first Deerhound (Dirk) was about 14 months old, I heard about the problems caused by cystinuria in Deerhounds. I also heard that the U. of Penna. had a screening test for the defect, so I submitted a urine sample to Penn. That’s how I found out that Dirk excretes cystine in his urine and how he became part of Dr. Paula Henthorn’s study.

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