Microchips causing cancer in dogs

[jim eyler]

This web site was brought to my attention by a concerned neighbor: chipmenot.com

 

 

[Adina P]

I don't think it's possible for vaccines to be 100% safe for each person each time. Just like any drug can't be expected to be 100% safe for each person, every time. It's a risk benefit evaluation we all have to think through for ourselves. I'm very responsive to fear and always get nervous before a vaccine...but only because I can easily inflate the likelihood of a bad event occurring in my head. I KNOW the likelihood is incredibly minute. When I was pregnant and H1N1 was going around...the scare stories about the evil h1n1 vaccine worried me. But I studied as much as I could about the vaccine and all seemed relatively safe. MUCH more safe than getting a flu as a pregnant woman (since we preggos have a lower immune system and decreased lung space).

And the government does share statistics on adverse vaccine reactions, they aren't necessarily secret. Every time I get a vaccine or get one for my daughter I get a handout saying that there is a small risk of XYZ. But sometimes stuff that is good for the population as a whole IS good for the individual. In areas where people skip vaccines it's common to see sudden returns of things like mumps and whooping cough, for example..which ARE bad for the individual. There is not good, scientific, evidence that vaccines cause autism. Those who claim it does pretty much claim it is extremely common...yet that link has not been found. Yes there are cases of adverse vaccine reactions. Just in the last two weeks a friend of mine reported to us how a dog he spent a lot of time with (wasn't his dog) died after routine vaccines. This isn't someone who would exaggerate. So I realize there are those rare occurrences. But the chances of getting the illnesses vaccines prevent against are much much higher than the chances of having an adverse reaction (of which most are not lethal or life altering).

As to micro-chipping...I'm still not sure how a micro-chip can do more than a collar & tag can except in the instance of a dog that was stolen or to prove ownership. Rosco's chipped and Boca will be soon with her spay, but I'm not convinced it would help FIND my dog any faster than his collar and tag would.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

It's that the chip can't fall off or get caught on something, like a collar/tags can.

[Adina P]

I can't even imagine HOW Rosco's collar could ever fall off or get caught with enough force to take it off. I do realize there are times he might have JUST had a bath and isn't wearing his collar and for some crazy reason he found his way out of our home/yard. I guess I just wish that microchips had GPS trackers in them. They are often talked about as though microchips help dogs get found. But they don't. They help FOUND dogs reunite with their owners if they are not wearing tags.

I'd be MORE afraid of losing my dogs where they wouldn't be FOUND...than that if found they wouldn't make it back to me. But then again if he were tattooed, nobody would ever notice it under all that fur =)

[F, Calla & Luca]

I think they tattoo under the ear flap where it's not sooo hairy. But GPS, they talk about it and that would be good.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

On German Shepherds, we tattooed on the inside of the thigh.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Not to make you ill but of course I went looking and the reasons for tattooing the inner thigh instead of the ear can make you ill.

http://www.paw-rescue.org/PAW/PETTIPS/DogTip_Dog_Tattoos.html

And the images of some thing s people do to animals can make you more ill.
http://www.google.com/images?hl=&q=tattooing+dogs&rlz=1B3GG...

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I'm afraid to look, but I'm guessing it's because someone could cut off an ear.

[Linda and Murphy]

First, thanks Karen and Adina for great responses on waccines, cancer and risk/benefit analysis/

Adina, I was actually in Petsmart when a stolen dog was brought in for grooming. They scan every dog that comes in. He had a chip that didn't match the "owner". The police were contacted and he was returned to the rightful owner.

[Adina P]

That is cool and good to know :)

[F, Calla & Luca]

Funny, it was when the dogs had a bath this summer that Petco managed to lose Calla's tags although they eventually were found.

[Camilla and Darwin]

This is reassuring to me, thanks. :-)

[Lynda Kamrath]

We got Hondo chipped after he got lost as a puppy on the 4th of July. A neighbor was setting off whistling fireworks while we were away at another fireworks display. The dogs were in the garage and they broke down the garage door and ran away, down the hill, and across Hwy 101. Someone found Bruno with his tags on his collar the next day. Hondo was with him but he had lost his collar. They were both very dirty and had come down the creekbed and were two miles away from our house. Neither dog was chipped. Our other two dogs from reputable breeders were neutered and chipped before they left the breeder.