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Posted 12/19/2024.
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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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Here is Gypsy
- Thread starter Melle
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gypsy is quite the beauty!!!! what did she have surgery for?
other than her being beautiful i am glad she is doing better and is coing back aound
other than her being beautiful i am glad she is doing better and is coing back aound
Thanks Robin! 
Well what happened was.... i bred her for the first time (she was almost 2 and weighed 90 grams and was eating and everything was fine.). she laid about 4 clutches of a couple eggs, but none were fertile, either that or she layed em outside the hide box and dried out before i got to em. anyhoo, she still ate good, yet lost weight. i figured it was because of breeding. when she stopped laying, she stopped eating as well. and her weight started to drop real fast. so i took her into the vet, thinking maybe she was eggbound or something. this vet is a real good reptile vet and very well known in the area for treating exotics. anyhoo, he felt two hard lumps on her sides that he thought could be egg matter, so he opened her up to remove them. he even thought he may have to remove the uterus as well if the eggs had attatched to the inner walls of it, which he says he has seen happen a few times with leos.
when i went to pick her up, he said there was no egg matter, and what the hard lumps were were actually her fat pads under her arms. somehow they had gotten un-attached and had just gone dead inside her and hardened up. he removed em (it was pretty nasty lookin). he said it couldhave been a vitamin deficiency, i think he said vitamin A, or she could have injured herself somehow, like fallen. but either way, she recovered fine and is eating great and gained most of her weight back. but i dont know how she could have had a vitamin A deficiency. can vitamin powders go bad over time? i still need to call him back about it.
Well what happened was.... i bred her for the first time (she was almost 2 and weighed 90 grams and was eating and everything was fine.). she laid about 4 clutches of a couple eggs, but none were fertile, either that or she layed em outside the hide box and dried out before i got to em. anyhoo, she still ate good, yet lost weight. i figured it was because of breeding. when she stopped laying, she stopped eating as well. and her weight started to drop real fast. so i took her into the vet, thinking maybe she was eggbound or something. this vet is a real good reptile vet and very well known in the area for treating exotics. anyhoo, he felt two hard lumps on her sides that he thought could be egg matter, so he opened her up to remove them. he even thought he may have to remove the uterus as well if the eggs had attatched to the inner walls of it, which he says he has seen happen a few times with leos.
when i went to pick her up, he said there was no egg matter, and what the hard lumps were were actually her fat pads under her arms. somehow they had gotten un-attached and had just gone dead inside her and hardened up. he removed em (it was pretty nasty lookin). he said it couldhave been a vitamin deficiency, i think he said vitamin A, or she could have injured herself somehow, like fallen. but either way, she recovered fine and is eating great and gained most of her weight back. but i dont know how she could have had a vitamin A deficiency. can vitamin powders go bad over time? i still need to call him back about it.