With a few of your "facts" and a few of your "tips" but overall, we both have heard this before(i wonder where?) And I totally agree with the overall intent of your post. Its a wonder how ignorant people can stay for so very long. This stuff is old stuff. I get the feeling its not about the information, I get the feeling its about the times. People do not "want" to understand and feel the animals. The reason is self-protective. They do not want to learn about things that will be gone. But thats another story.

You could add,
fact and tip, K.I.S.S., keep it simple stupid

fact and tip, common sense wins over misguided information or misguided out of context education.

Fact and tip, realtime successful experience wins over theory. The tip, go with results not words.

fact and tip, the animal is the subject, not the recipe or articule or book. They are only to help understand the subject, BUT ARE CLEARLY not the subject. tip, believe the animal.

fact, academics do not have an actual subject(the real monitor) so their subject is what is the written word. Please look up the many difinitions of academic. As in, academics are academic when it comes to living animals. Their world is the word, not the animal.

fact and tip, The academics subject has wandered off into never neverland, a very long time ago. Which leads you back to the real tip, do not take that stuff so seriously. As in, folks who talk and read about living monitors, but do not partake in, or are successful at, are merely academic.

Fact, do not listen to academics, when you can listen to someone who is actually doing what your interested in. Whatever the actual subject or goal.
The TIP, ask yourself why you would believe in someone who only talks(writes) and does not do. This one is "on" the person looking for information, not the authors.

Advanced facts, animals do not live by the word, they live by behaviors(actions) which make them non-academic by definition.

Yea, I do not know about plastic water bowls, been using them forever. Or chlorinated water, been using that forever, never had a problem with them. Or wormers, never used that, so I do not know about them. I do have my suspisions, but that is not "fact". I do not think they are a good thing.

Other then that, getty up cowboy, throw down on those red bandanas. Lets skin that smoke wagon, I'll be your huckleberry(tombstone). Cheers

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