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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.

It's a good thing I love my cats....

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Because if I didn't, I probably would have killed them by now.

Why? Well, yesterday morning to a roach crawling up my arm because Rocky, my male cat, broke the screen away from the cover and got into the bin.

As if that wasn't enough, last night I woke up to crickets crawling and jumping on me because he knocked over a critter keeper full of them. Of course, my husband was not affected by either incident.

These are only the most recent, and bug related of the trouble my cats get into. So, like I said, it's a good thing I love them!
 
*I woke up to a roach crawling on me. sorry. I really need to start previewing before I post!
 
yeah, cats are the jerks of the animal world.

my cat is lucky I love her too- here is the list of things she did:

-i left a bag of rodents to thaw to feed snakes. she rips open the bag- and eats half og one rat, and half of another rat- 2 snakes didnt get fed because she decided to eat 2 halves of rat, and not just one whole one( it was bad enough she got to them)
- stands right next to you when you are sleeping and meows at the top of her lungs- she is not even hungry

- decides to be spider-cat and runs across the windows matrix style and lands on our flatscreen tv- making it wobble almost toppling over.

- i cant tell you how many times i woke up to either her clawing at me, or the sound of her paw landing on the bed an inch away from me, her clawing at my feet, or biting my toes- for no apparent reason.
- if you touch her in her bad spot- which changes daily- she bites you.
- this is prolly the worst one: if you get up off the couch- she jumps in your spot- and when you try to sit down- she claws you. there is several variations to this- if you sit too close- she kicks and claws- or she wont move- so you act like you are gonna sit on her- and she just bites your butt...

the joys of cats!
 
Janet,
I'm sure it took a good bit of training to get her to bite your butt when you offer it to her - congrats on your success!!(??)
As far as the other biting, you shouldn't touch kitty's bad place.......even if it shifts regularly.
 
I've learned to leave ANY cat's tummy alone. Every time one rolls over and wants me to pet it I get scratched. They just get over excited, but...
 
My 2 year old cat catches and kills bats and mice. :) He's easy to love. The kitten who found us isn't so easy to live with. She poops on the floor right beside the litter box.:ack2:
 
LOL. I had to get an enclosed litterbox because my cats would sit in the litterbox, but hang their buts outside of it!
 
Ours won't go in a covered box.

The kitten showed up all greasy. Grease in her fur and skin and bones on a freezing day. Brought her inside and saw she had ear mites. Cleaned her up and started taking care of her and now she has thick, long soft red and white fur (Orange in cats is called red) Her name's Ariel
 
Try explaining to friends and co-workers the reason why you have a black eye!

During a period of bad weight gain, I snored so badly, my husband kicked me out of the bedroom. Turtle, our cat, objected to the noise as well. I would be woken up several times a night by her slapping me in the face, causing me to roll over onto my side and quiet down for a while.

One night, after smacking me about 5-6 times, I guess she got fed up with the whole thing. She baffed me so hard right on my eye, I was seeing stars! The next morning, I was sporting a lovely red eyeball, by the time I left for work later that evening, it was a real shiner. I had one co-worker demanding that I stop lying to "protect the b*****d". Would not believe me about the cat at all! Even through I had been joking about her slapping me when I snore at night, for the past couple of weeks prior to that.
 
Wow. That was funny. lol

I used to have a cat in high school who always brought me "gifts." Getting up one morning to get ready for school and almost stepped on the back half of a mouse. I vaguely wondered where the other half was and carefully looked everywhere I walked at the time. When I got to school I put my coat in my locker and went about my day. about 4th period I went to get my books for my next class.
anyone guess where the front half of the mouse was yet?

Moving my coat to get to my books, my coat moved just right and I saw the mouse stuck to the inside of my coat. I flipped out and a bunch of people came over to see. Of course all the guys loved it. I was standing there cursing out my cat and shuddering about the thing being on the inside of the coat touching my skin. NEVER wore that coat again.


And another day I was actually asleep when my cat ran up the steps with a live mouse, and jumped on my chest and dropped it on my chest. I woke up screaming, flung both the cat and mouse off my bed, and my cat just sat there looking at me like "Look what you did! You let it get away!" My parents told me that they had just been about to yell up to warn me when I screamed.
 
lol,

When I lived at home, our cats were always bringing and leaving gifts. I woke up more than once to live rodents being dropped on me while in bed. At least once a week I woke up to them chasing one around the house and had to spring into action for yet another rescue mission. Just about every morning the walkway would be a graveyard. It started out as just a few full rodents, then it began to escalate. By the time I moved out, we would leave every morning to find a head here, ass there, a few front halves, multiple feet and tails, a pile of intestines or two. All these from multiple different animals. Mice, Rats, Moles, Voles, Frogs, Bats, Birds, and the occasional Chipmunk and Squirrel.
 
Ick. Ari doesn't tear them apart, thank God! He just holds mice in his mouth until they die.
 
reptilebaby said:
Ick. Ari doesn't tear them apart, thank God! He just holds mice in his mouth until they die.
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Its more than tearing apart. He consumed them. Hence the heads, feet, and tails. :ack2: During the summer time it wasnt so bad, one day we didnt have time to clean them up, so we left for work, and when we came home, they were all gone! We realized that if we left them, the crows would take care of the mess for us!:D How happy I was to no longer have to clean up piles of intestines!
 
Yeah, I used to have cats that would eat them too.
Ari is a strange cat though. He doesn't eat them either. He even meows at us until someone comes to throw them away once they are dead. He's teaching Ariel to do the same, I think.
Had a fish jump out of it's tank once and Ari came to find me in the bathroom and led me to it so I could put it back. never even tried to eat it!
 
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