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Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South
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| ![]() I was just telling my husband last week we need to get our babies chipped, you know, just in case. Well I got this in my feed reader this afternoon so now I am not too sure I want too. Studies Show Microchips Cause Cancer in Mice, Rats So would you all microchip or not, since this is not 100% positive? |
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Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Houston, Texas USA
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| ![]() I hadn't heard of the cancer connection, before reading your post....However, common sense told me that inserting a foreign object under the skin of a dog couldn't be healthy....I never considered having this done, and the article has reinforced my original feelings against it.... |
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Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South
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| ![]() Thanks Maggie that is my thoughts too. They don't always wear collars due to coughing when they do. So I guess I will keep my fingers crossed ans say prayers! |
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Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Houston, Texas USA
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| ![]() Yes, prayers would be our first option, along w/real vigilence in keeping a watchful eye on our babies...My Apple is never out of my sight, if she is outside of the house...I've got one friend that thinks I'm a nutcase, because I watch Apple so closely, when I'm away from home...She can think whatever she wants, I'm Apple's mom, and I'll continue to watch her like a hawk...Which is another reason why I watch her so closely outside....Those durn hawks ![]() Well, Apple and I are turning in...We're having to walk @ 7 a.m., because of the unbearable heat here in S. E. Texas....Made it to 100 today!!! ![]() |
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I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | ![]() Well there has been lots of rumors that microchips are unsafe lately, and I believe this is due to recent legislation being proposed in many states that will require commercial breeders to microchip their dogs. Commercial breeders are fighting this legislation, not because of the great concern that their dogs will get cancer, but it will cost them about $20.00 a dog. The main reason that they are fighting this, I believe, is that these dogs can be traced back to them should they be found shot dead lying in the road, when their breeding career is over. How do they fight this legislation? All they have to do is spread enough rumors around saying that the microchip is unsafe. If enough of the general public believes it, they aren't as likely to pass these laws. Remember the study that showed a tumor relationship between mice and microchips was not a controlled study, also they used a special genetically engineered, tumor making mice, and from this the conclusions were that these mice did develop tumors. However, these genetically engineered mice were developed so we could study cancer more carefully, not to show that dogs would get cancer. We have to be careful what the real conclusions are from a study, and the popular media, sometimes badly misinterpret a study for their own purpose. When testing microchips in dogs they found that: Quote:
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Thor's Human Donating Member | ![]() I had Thor chipped, and I absolutely will do it for any pet I own in the future. We see so many stories here about yorkies who slip out the door, and of course they are not wearing collars. On the flip side, people have found yorkies with no tags or chips. All shelters and rescues I know about chip their dogs as SOP. I've also seen stories in the news about dogs that are reunited with their owners after many years, even when the owners moved out of state - all because of the chip. When considering the idea of a foreign object under your skin, consider it's not just dogs who get things like this - metal pins are placed in people's joints after bad bone fractures, the elderly may consider a plastic hip or two, some people have pace makers, etc. As long as it is chemically inert, which many metals are, it should not be harmful.
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Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: NorCal
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| ![]() I am definitely getting the chipped. I know that they also used to tattoo dogs, is that still a common practice? |
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Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: vacaville ca usa
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| ![]() I posted this on another thread about their baby who got out. So very glad a good neighbor found him and nothing happened. I have 4 of those boys who don't notice and don't tend to think. But I got to love em. Don't I??? Just joking!! ![]() ![]() I believe that micro chipping is much better than the alternative to never recover my little one. If the stats quoted are right, they are in our favor!
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YT Addict Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: paris crossing,indiana
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| ![]() all my dogs are chipped and never had any problem. |
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Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Houston, Texas USA
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| ![]() You do have to worry about them slipping out the front door...Apple did this a couple of times, when I would come home from work at night, and scared the doo-waddly-squat out of me ![]() |
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And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI
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| ![]() I really don't think chipping poses much danger at all medically. We do not do it for ethical and religious reasons, but to each their own. ![]()
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Action Jackson ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Maryland
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| ![]() I don't see anything wrong with chipping at all. I think it's a great safety pre-caution. Jackson is chipped.
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Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South
Posts: 109
| ![]() Wow I didn't know about a law that was on going. I've never heard anything about it. I guess it will be years down the road before we know for sure. It's like the scientist think cell phones cause cancer, then they find later that No it don't. ![]() |
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My furkids Donating Member | ![]() I also have heard about the cancer thing with micro-chipping...I know someone (and have heard) where the chip shifted and ended up on the top of the shoulder. I personally would not chip them.
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YT Addict Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NJ & NY
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| ![]() Duke is chipped and he has not had any problems relating to the chip and it has been almost a year. I think it's a personal decision depending on your surrounding and needs. I live in a city like area and no fenced in yard so in the case that Duke gets loose on our walk or is taken from me, atleast I know I have tried what I can to get him back.
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