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Originally Posted by Breny (Post 1086316)

I went to the HomeAgain website but do not see were they offer the items for sale. Where is the information for Breeders?

Sorry, Avid Micro Chips has the direct ordering.....You can order Home Again, through Revival Animal

so i don't need the scanner unless i have so many babies i cannot tell them apart. i only have about 2 litters a year at different times.
i really think adding the mircochip adds to being a responsible breeder.

if there is any other info you can add, i would appreciate it.

is it difficult to insert? i read you place it between the shoulder blades (deep). is it just like a shot?

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Originally Posted by lisatodd (Post 1086359)

I only have 1 or 2 litters a year too. But, you do need cross check before and after.

If you have a breeder friendly vet, I'd have the vet teach you how to do it 1st. The needle can be intimidating.

http://www.countrysidepet.net
this is the site where i saw the advid and home again chips for sale. is this a good supplier? or let me know where you get them from.
thanks

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Originally Posted by lisatodd (Post 1086376)

http://www.countrysidepet.net
this is the site where i saw the advid and home again chips for sale. is this a good supplier? or let me know where you get them from.
thanks

My suggestion to you is do a price comparison on different sites.

I was told by Tim Reese this past weekend the AKC will be having a very small chip with the syringe for sale soon and if you buy so many you get the scanner for free. I checked the site but did not see anything as of yet. I will check with Tim and see if I can get more information. I do not have so many dogs that I do not know who they are, but I still think this might be nice to have for the future.

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Originally Posted by dray (Post 1086985)

this will be great. please let us know. i don't need a scanner if all it is used for is to determine which puppy is which. i thought maybe you needed it to make sure the chip is working????
but if akc is selling chips, well great:thumbs up

Yes, AKC is already selling them. I got an email about it quite a while back. This is what I'm going to go to. And I'll do them myself.

It was my understanding that if you are a breeder and microchip your dogs, you HAD to have the reader.

I'll go through my emails and see if I can find the link to the AKC chips.

so you can purchase them without the reader. gosh....i don't need that many chips.
i guess i would be better off w the other companies.

jefferspet.com sales them

I thought I read

that there is some controversy regarding cancer and these chips..?????

Anyone else read this???

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Saleswman - I thought I read
that there is some controversy regarding cancer and these chips..?????

Anyone else read this???

I also had read this and so asked my vet. He is very good and up on all things and I trust him. He stated that cats are more pron to getting cancer from anything foreign object in their bodies, such as a microchip. He said that in dogs they are very safe and if any cancer was associated with microchips it is still being researched and not enough evidence as of yet. In his opinion, he believed it to be very safe. An example he gave me is when your dog goes under surgery - there are sutures, hip surgery - sometimes pins are added, etc.. I felt comfortable with his explaination and have all my dogs and pups microchipped.
AKC rep came to my all-breed club and announced that they have plans in the future to require all dogs be microchipped to be able to register them. They are still researching this and do not know when and if this will happen, but she felt confident that it will, in her opinion, come to be.
T.

My dogs are microchipped. I got it done and yes, the needle is quite intimidating! Here's what I've found on the link between cancer at the injection site and dogs...

IMPLANTED MICROCHIPS CAUSE CANCER

By Jane Williams (For Publication in the January 2007 "American Family Voice")

At the National ID Expo in Kansas City, Arkansas Animal Producer’s Association President Michael Steenbergen asked, "What safety studies have been conducted on the chips that are inserted into animals?" His question was met with total silence. Did these manufacturers not know, or were they unwilling to admit that research has confirmed that implanted microchips cause cancer?

Melvin T. Massey, DVM from Brownsboro, Texas, brought this to the attention of the American Horse Council when he wrote, "I am a retired Equine Veterinarian and still breed a few horses. Because of migration-infections-increased risk of sarcoids I will not want to have microchips in my horses."

The Institute of Experimental Pathology at Hannover Medical School in Germany reported , "An experiment using 4279 CBA/J mice of two generations was carried out to investigate the influence of parental preconceptual exposure to X-ray radiation or to chemical carcinogens. Microchips were implanted subcutaneously in the dorsolateral back for unique indentification of each animal. The animals were kept for lifespan under standard laboratory conditions. In 36 mice a circumscribed neoplasm occurred in the area of the implanted microchip. Macroscopically, firm, pale white nodules up to 25 mm in diameter with the microchip in its center were found. Macroscopically, soft tissue tumors such as fibrosarcoma and malignant fibrous histiocytoma were detected."

Ecole Nationale Veterinaire of Unite d’Anatomie Pathologique in Nantes, France, reported, "Fifty-two subcutaneous tumors associated with microchip were collected from three carcinigenicity B6C3F1 mice studies. Two of these 52 tumours were adenocarcinoma of the mammary gland located on the dorsal region forming around the chip. All the other 50 were mesenchymal in origin and were difficult to classify on morphological grounds with haematoxylin-eosin."

Marta Vascellari of Instituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie at Viale dell’Universita in Legnaro, Italy reported examining a 9-year-old male French Bulldog for a subcutaneous mass located at the site of a microchip implant. "The mass was confirmed as a high-grade infiltrative fibrosarcoma, with multifocal necrosis and peripheral lymphoid aggregates."

The Toxicology Department of Bayer Corporation in Stillwell, Kansas reported, "Tumors surrounding implanted microchip animal identification devices were noted in two separate chronic toxicity/oncogenicity studies using F344 rats. The tumors occurred at a low incidence rate (approximately 1%), but did result in the early sacrifice of most affected animals, due to tumor size and occasional metastases. No sex-related trends were noted. All tumors occurred during the second year of the studies, were located in the subcutaneous dorsal thoracic area (the site of microchip implantation) and contained embedded microchip devices. All were mesenchymal in origin and consisted of the following types, listed on order of frequency: malignant schwannoma, fibrosarcoma, anaplastic sarcoma, and histiocytic sarcoma. The following diagnostic techniques were employed: light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and immunohistochemistry. The mechanism of carcinogenicity appeared to be that of foreign body induced tumorigenesis."

Additional studies related to cancer tumors at the site of microchip implants have been conduced in China; however, at this time these studies are not available in English. At this time, no long term studies are available covering more than two years. It only seems logical to conclude that if carcinogenic tumors occur within one percent of animals implanted within two years of the implant that the percentage would increase with the passage of time. Additional studies need to be conducted, but don’t hold your breath for the manufacturers of microchips to conduct such research and be leery of any such "research" they may conduct. Even the limited research available clearly indicates that implantation of microchips within an animal is gambling with the animal’s well being.

For additional Information: http://www.vetpathology.org/cgi/cont...tract/43/4/545 , National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health, www.pubmed.gov , google for "sarcomas associated with implanted microchips".

why does everything cause cancer???????????????