[Doodlebug]

I didn't hear about the cancer scare with the microchips. That scares me. Mine are both chipped and we were at a dog event where someone scanned my dogs and read their Avid chip. She said that most scanners can read 90-something percent of the chips but possibly not chips from Europe. I would really like to know if there is anything to this cancer thing because if it is true, I would get mine taken out and get them tattooed.

On the plus side of chips, someone brought a little lost yorkie to my house because the neighbors told him they thought she was mine. There were no id tags on the collar, but it did have the blue microchip id tag. So I called the vet to see if they could give me contact info on the dog and while they were checking the owner came to my house to claim the dog. It turns out the man who found the dog told the owners where he dropped off their dog. At least the microchip id tag on the collar gave me a place to start and I knew the owners could be positively identified.