Displaying boiled cancer ponies with unaffected ponies?

[EmBee]

Hello,

Can you display ponies that have cancer (but have been boiled in a pot of water with scoops of oxy) with ponies that do not have cancer?  Will the cancer spread to other ponies or not?  Has anyone here tried this?

Thank you!
-Em

[Eldarwen]

Its safe, it wont spread to other ponies. Cancer is just plastic breaking down.

I have many ponies with cancer in my collection (I didnt even boil them) and its been 2 years and it hasnt spread to other ponies. And all my childhood ponies spent years and years together in a plastic bag - only one of them has cancer. So, no need to worry!

[lunar_scythe]

as far as I know, 'cancer' is actually an age spot, so it can't spread to other ponies.  I think a lot of the problems we see 'spreading' to other ponies are actually because they are in the same environmental conditions (for example,  smooze= inground dirt and dust, so it will seem to 'spread' if 2 ponies are in a dusty/dirty area, one pony may just show it sooner)

[cyberunicorn]

some of my ponies have cancer and they are bot displayed and stored with none cancer ponies. with no problems. And all I have done with them is normal soap and water (but that is because they have come from a bait lot so are normally dirty)

The last time I tried to boil a pony I melted the hair 

[ravengusty]

I used to be worried about pony cancer because I was under the misapprehension that it spread but then there was a thread about it (or it was mentioned in a thread) and folks said it doesn't spread it's just degeneration of plastic and I  breathed a huge sigh of relief panic over haha 

I still don't like it but not many of my herd have age spots as yet, my main troubles are dust and pen marks  it might help if i got round to actually buying a display cabinet.

[claricesponies]

Its safe, it wont spread to other ponies. Cancer is just plastic breaking down.

I have many ponies with cancer in my collection (I didnt even boil them) and its been 2 years and it hasnt spread to other ponies. And all my childhood ponies spent years and years together in a plastic bag - only one of them has cancer. So, no need to worry!

I agree with above quote. Plastic that is degrading is not contagious.

MOLD is what scares me!

[EmBee]

Thank you, everyone! I will display them with the others when they are dry. 

-Em

[hathorcat]

as far as I know, 'cancer' is actually an age spot, so it can't spread to other ponies.  I think a lot of the problems we see 'spreading' to other ponies are actually because they are in the same environmental conditions (for example,  smooze= inground dirt and dust, so it will seem to 'spread' if 2 ponies are in a dusty/dirty area, one pony may just show it sooner)

This!!! I think this is genuinely what has caused confusion over the years. Ponies which have all been in the same environment - for example boxed in an air tight plastic container, stored in a humid environment with fluctuating  temperatures may all come out of that box with the same break downs and conditions. But the reason for that is that they are all made of the same type of plastic and have all been exposed to the same variable conditions therefore its possible they may all break down in a similar way.

However the breakdown itself is not spreadable from plastic pony to plastic pony - the breakdown is internal to the individual pony and its plastic. So as others have said you would be fine to display them side by side without worry.

[reanna-mator]

I'm so glad the whole "contagious" myth is breaking down-- pun intended.

Just to throw my opinion in to make it all the stronger, I have no qualms about displaying my ponies with age spots next to ponies in much better condition, even if they're not treated yet. *hugs Masquerade*

[Corona]

I have a baby Applejack with cancer hanging out with my other babies and none of them have gotten it. Scrubbed with oxyclean anyway because I'm paranoid.

I'd be worried about mold though. I heard if you boil a pony with mold spots in oxyclean it should be fine? I've been keeping my mold spotted Peachy in a ziplock to be safe but that one I"m not sure about.

[lunar_scythe]

what does the mold look like? if it's the kind of pindot that's the little black specks, it's actually just dirt and dust ground into the plastic.

[Corona]

what does the mold look like? if it's the kind of pindot that's the little black specks, it's actually just dirt and dust ground into the plastic.

Taken off Google (apologies to whomever owns this image!,) but it looks like this, just darker and a more well defined round circle. My Peachy's belly is covered in these.
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[hathorcat]

Unfortunately thats an age mark/cancer not mould. However it does mean it won't spread to other ponies.

[EmBee]

The cancer spots I'm talking about are the brown spots with rings around them.

Some of the ponies did have pindot but I boiled them in water/oxy and scrubbed with baking soda.  Most of it is gone now; hopefully that's enough... 

-Em