When this disease strikes, the kidneys are destroyed little by little, there is no noticeable effect on the dog until there is too
little kidney tissue left to cope with the work load, then, quite suddenly the dog becomes obviously ill.
Standing and staring at the line running along the stone, he knew he could part the delicate, dark - red
tissue of the
kidney along the avascular plane, across the organ's whole length, causing
little blood loss or damage, and pop a kind of cartridge into this incision — a wafer of healthy
kidney tissue.