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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.

How to give an IM injection to a boa?

Front third of the boa, on one side or the other in the muscle of the neck. Slip the point of the needle under a scale and then into the critter. One of you holds the snake, the other gives the shot.

Baytril is usually given every 3 days for 30 days. I alternate sides for mine.
 
When my boa had an cold I had hive baytril orally thru a syringe in the mouth a 10 day course, he wasn’t impressed but it did the job


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Thanks Richard.

Did you give tablets or does it come as a drinkable liquid? Last time I thought I had a problem there were only tablets available, so I crushed them up and pipetted a suspension into their throats. Didn't make me popular with the snakes, and not sure it was effective, but it was all I had at the time. Do you remember the dosage you gave?
 
Hi Helen
It was a clear liquid and I’m sure it was 10mm every day for day days,the vet just told me to make sure it went to the back of the throat , my 6ft boa wasn’t impressed but he never once nipped me, he is a big softie anyway but if there ever was a time ,I’m Sure it would of been then[emoji4]


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Also, a 45 degree angle at entry helps ensure it stays in the muscle and doesn't go into the body cavity. It honestly isn't too bad, but you keep smaller species which can be a bit more challenging.
 
Thank for that, James. He's currently about 3 Kg and 1.5m long, so it shouldn't be too hard. He's not so small as to be fragile, and not so big it will take 6 of us to hold him...

He was wheezing and gaping this morning, after 3 weeks of not showing symptoms, so it's definitely time to get real help. I've spent the morning making a digest of Baytril in Reptiles info for my vet who usually sees cats and dogs and very little else.
 
Well, I sucessfully gave my first Baytril injection yesterday at the vet's office, surrounded by a fascinated vet and 3 technicians, none of whom had even touched a snake before. (We are taking some of the healthy ones in on Saturday to run a handling session for them).

So now it's just fingers crossed, I'm giving injections every 2 days for the next 4 weeks.
 
Good luck with the baytril,hope it works

That’s good your able to give some training sessions to the vets,at least it will benefit you in the future


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richardhind1972 said:
Good luck with the baytril,hope it works
That’s good your able to give some training sessions to the vets,at least it will benefit you in the future
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Well, it's a gamble as we don't have a veterinary lab here to run swabs to ID the infectious agent (heck, they don't do that for people here half the time), so we don't actually know its bacterial, nor which bacteria it might be, but at this point anything is better than nothing, which is what I had before.

I'll try and post some photos once we do our handling training :).
 
Any update on your scale baby Helen? Fingers are crossed for good news!
 
She's posted some updates in the thread linked on the first post here :)
 
Hi Helen, how’s it going with the respiratory infection , have the injections done the job. And cleared it all up,Cheers Rich


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Sorry to hear that he’s. It improved as much as you would of liked, ok I will follow the progress on there, cheers rich


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