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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

A nice beginner Boa

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NOT!

But she is a purty thing. :yesnod:

All I wanted to do was clean her cage. :(

Zeroing in...

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More zeroing in, and voicing her displeasure at my presence, just before letting one go...

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Just after the near miss. Notice her lower jaw, OUCH...

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Trying to wedge herself in for a better strike...

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I left her be after that. I don't dig her striking at me, because not only does she bite, HARD, she hits the glass HARD. Don't need to deal with a broken faced, pissed off, Honduran. LOL

Thanks for looking!
 
If you quit trying to clean clean cages, she might not be so touchy...
Just sayin :)
 
I think she just wants to give you a little peck on the cheek, Rick. I don't have any quite that bad at the moment and am thankful for it.

Chris
 
hhmoore said:
If you quit trying to clean clean cages, she might not be so touchy...
Just sayin :)
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I cropped out the turd, but if you want, I can get a nice close up of it before she comes out to get me. I'd only do this for a true friend you know. :thumbsup:

Chris, she's hated me since I got her. Pulled her out of the box at work, and she struck at me instantly, and everyone in the room scrammed. She was all of 15-16 inches long back then. Now she's closer to 7 ft, and has had some practice. She gets closer all the time, but has only got me once, and that was a stupid feeding error on my part, for being complacent.

I ought to send her back to Bob Harding for bringing such hell spawn into this world. LOL

Thanks for the nice replies.
 
She looks like a total teddy bear. I bet I can guess what her nickname is. :rofl:

Loving that green with the few salmon scales.
 
Beginner boa ? :rofl:
I have a tooth"beginning" to surface after being embedded for nearly 2 yrs from one of these MMA boa's.
For small snakes I cant figure why its hurts as bad as it does when they get in a solid shot to the flesh :shrug01:

NO,gloves ain't just for sissy's . . . . . :reddevil:
 
Metachrosis said:
Beginner boa ? :rofl:
I have a tooth"beginning" to surface after being embedded for nearly 2 yrs from one of these MMA boa's.
For small snakes I cant figure why its hurts as bad as it does when they get in a solid shot to the flesh :shrug01:

NO,gloves ain't just for sissy's . . . . . :reddevil:
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Hah! I wish TAZ would have stayed small. Even as small as her sister. And it hurts more because they mean it. LOL Now this dude...

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6 yrs old, and no bigger then what you see there. He also don't take as big of a bite as her, and not nearly as often. Need me some more like that. :D
 
great looking boas! All of my big girls seem to have calmed down or at least let me do my job in peace. But I do have a couple youngsters who will go for me just about every time... I'm hoping they calm down as they grow!
 
TAZ is pretty much the only one here that acts up consistently. Dude, and El Fuego and Serendipity act up occasionally, but chill out once I convince them I'm getting my way.

Thanks for the nice replies! And merry Christmas to everybody.
 
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