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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  I don't like microchips in anything living its a foreign object which the body is known to reject and should not be in the body. I have heard a few stories of them causing cancer. |
Microchips are one of the safest procedures known. While it's true that they may have caused tumors in some dogs, it's not true that they have been shown to cause cancer. Some dogs will develop a tumor from any type of injection, even water. Many commercial breeders were fighting the mandatory microchip laws because they didn't want dogs traced back to them, and so they put out lots of propaganda concerning microchips and cancer. They even wrote about out study with rats getting cancer from microchips, when, in fact, a special tumor producing rat was used in the study because scientists wanted to know how the cancer started, they KNEW that some of the rats would get cancer that's why they used them, but they wanted to study the cancer in the beginning stages. However, this study wasn't meant to study the "safety", but only to study cancer and it's stages.
According to one microchip manufacturer, 10,000 pets are reunited with their people
each month thanks to their microchips! Read more here about microchips and cancer.
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