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Originally Posted by roosmom  Before you microchip you should make sure to read up on it- there was a recent study that said microchipping increases the chance of cancer by something like 5-10%? Anyway I decided against it after that- I had actually signed up to get Roo microchipped when my parents told me they heard it on the news the night before and I looked it up and found articles about it and called back and told them under no circumstances to microchip my baby! It's not worth the risk for me!! |
None of the "studies" that have come out prove anything to me...they are all a bunch of speculation to me. I don't believe microchipping causes tumors. We've been microchipping dogs and cats for like 15 years now (thousands and thousands have been chipped) and they found ONE dog that actually had a tumor around a microchip....ONE dog out of several THOUSANDS (if not millions). And rats and mice get cancer so easily...everything causes them to get cancer, so studies done in mice/rats just don't necessarily tell me anything when comparing to other animals. I truly believe microchipping is very safe.
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