**GRAPHIC** Reminder to always monitor live feedings!!!

[JodanOrNoDan]

Well, driving drunk is not a "necessity", like driving itself.

Yet it happens ALL THE TIME.

Texting while driving is not a necessity. Again, happens all over and all of the time.

Some of the offenders are young people that most certainly have come across the typical "scare tactics" during their education at school. The typical gruesome pictures, the visits to the morgue. Yet, they still do it. The human brain has a great mechanism of "blocking out" negative information.
The adults that do it. They know better as well. I think everybody has seen the pictures of wrecks, or dead people, thanks to drunk driving, texting during driving or even smoking during driving. Yet people do it all the time. I dare say everyone in here has done something like this at one time or another, fully aware of the possible consequences.

Children are being taught not to go with strangers. Some are being taught with scare tactics. Scary pictures. Scary stories. There has been a study out there where they tested children. Most went with the stranger, if only to see puppies. The children who were actually taught in a positive way, appealing to their "good sense" praising them for remembering reasons, giving them incentive and positive feedback to do the right thing fared FAR better!!

I can't find the study right now, but it has been established that scare tactics really do not work that well for educational purposes.

On the contrary, positive experiences and teaching tools work great. Offering help, not berating for mistakes, praising effort. All this has a long lasting effect. It wakens the desire to do better.

I do agree...a picture is worth a thousand words. In many ways.

But certain images such as the one posted don't have much of any true positive effect and not much of a educational one. I don't even think they were intended for that. Pictures such as that are usually abused for some agenda or other.

Opinions will always vary. Points differ. I think we can all argue all this till the cows come home and in the end, there will still be disagreement.

Most important is to remember that we are all here for the love of our animals, so we can get past not agreeing on everything

I love to disagree with Eric. He argues well and at the very least I learn something from the disagreement. As to the rest of your post, I am sure there are studies that will present either argument favorably. Some people learn better with positive reinforcement, some with negative, more still with a balance of both. The discussions I have here whether positive or negative always benefit me. I usually walk away with something new learned whether it is about the animals or something else. My discussions are never personal. I would expect that very few of us actually know who the others really are so there is no way it can be personal. Half the time I don't even know if I am talking to a male or a female. I could be a 15 year old girl with a cornsnake and no one would be the wiser. I will admit some are more fun to disagree with than others. Eric like I said is fun, and when Deborah or Pit get sucked into something it is almost always going to get entertaining.