The condition
When Ranger stopped growing, his owners thought it was due to a certain parasite he had when they adopted him. They took him to the vet, who quickly ruled this out as a possibility. This wouldn’t explain his growth issues.
It appeared that Ranger had a condition called ‘pituitary dwarfism’. This is a condition that is seen most often in German Shepherds like Ranger. Now that they knew what the issue was, Ranger’s owners could take it into account. But besides receiving the diagnosis, the dwarfism had other effects on the German Shepherd.