Microchipping Research Paper

Woof woof ! You killed me by misleading my owner into thinking that microchipping pets is reliable and safe. In reality, microchipping is a tedious and excruciating process for any pet to go through. Animals should not have to be put through the process of microchipping like I had to. This hurts us but you keep sticking bigger needles in every time you invent a bigger and better microchip. You inserted a huge needle into me and it caused me to bleed severely and several days later my owner found a large cancer growth on the site of the microchip. It’s not just me effected by this as, scientific studies have found that many dogs have died from tumours and immense neurological damage. There have been a total of 122 instances where animals

I didn’t blame my owner for my death because I know the truth. Of the 1/3 of pets that get lost only 14% of dogs and 7% of cats were found due to microchipping. If your scanner doesn’t detect a microchip on a lost animal, whether it’s because your scanner is not universal, or because the microchip has moved, you will then euthanise the animal. This is cruel and inhumane and goes against everything that a vet should stand for. You need to be more thorough with your microchip checks and only trained individuals should be microchipping animals. If microchipping is compulsory in certain countries across the world, you need to have reliable microchipping techniques and procedures to ensure the wellbeing of all

There have been many instances where your microchips have gotten lost in the animals body or have moved to the animals brain, resulting in death. There have been 265 occasions in the last year where an animals microchip has moved. Do you as a vet not find this totally unacceptable? One customer who lived in Nelson, reported that you said her lost animal was in Auckland. She drove to Auckland only to find a completely different dog with the same microchip as