• 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.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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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.

LEARNED A SAD & COSTLY LESSON ABOUT BEARDED DRAGONS!

Well to anyone wanting to know of sad lessons with bearded Dragons, I would make the following suggestion. Use electric heat but definately NOT propane. Propane sucks the oxygen out of the air and I lost alot of beardie babies before I realized what was happening as well as a hefty vet bill. I was trying to keep them warm during some very cold spell and keeping my room warm as well. I lost one then two and the next morning another was dying so I took the ones that were left and raced to the vet office to find out what was happening. I noticed after leaving home that the one that was looking like it was dying began to breathe better in the car. Got to the vets office had to wait for her to arrive and every time I went out side it seemed better. She told me that it had passed. I insisted that it couldnt be and wanted it put on oxygen after some debate she did what I asked, later she sent word it was breathing and she was looking in on it. I got to go back and see her standing. Later that evening she called to tell me that it had passed anyways, she had given it some fluids to build it up but my opinion is that the fluid probably collapsed the lungs but we will never know. Bill was over 300.00 I never used her again. Stand up for what You beleive with your animals and learn all You can. They are worth every minute of it.
 
I also noticed that the thread is old....I thought I'd mention one thing though.It may be that some people mistakenly think that a small dragon can be safe with a large one because some of the websites pose a baby right on the head or back of an adult dragon.A person that does not know beardie behavior assumes that because dragons are very docile and easy to handle[ almost friendly] that they have a friendly,parental instinct toward a smaller dragon.Not so !! A large dragon would eat a baby that it has been posed with if given the chance 99% of the time.
 
kmarsh said:
Well to anyone wanting to know of sad lessons with bearded Dragons, I would make the following suggestion. Use electric heat but definately NOT propane. Propane sucks the oxygen out of the air and I lost alot of beardie babies before I realized what was happening as well as a hefty vet bill. I was trying to keep them warm during some very cold spell and keeping my room warm as well. I lost one then two and the next morning another was dying so I took the ones that were left and raced to the vet office to find out what was happening. I noticed after leaving home that the one that was looking like it was dying began to breathe better in the car. Got to the vets office had to wait for her to arrive and every time I went out side it seemed better. She told me that it had passed. I insisted that it couldnt be and wanted it put on oxygen after some debate she did what I asked, later she sent word it was breathing and she was looking in on it. I got to go back and see her standing. Later that evening she called to tell me that it had passed anyways, she had given it some fluids to build it up but my opinion is that the fluid probably collapsed the lungs but we will never know. Bill was over 300.00 I never used her again. Stand up for what You beleive with your animals and learn all You can. They are worth every minute of it.
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Why not buy a space heater for 20$.. some people
 
WEllll hosty, some of us aren't know it all gods and the place I had them in that was all we had for heat. I had never heard that propane would be a problem and so that is why I put this out here so others will know from what happened to me. I figured if the propane is safe for us then it had to be ok for my critters. Apparently we can handle the lack of oxygen since our lungs are larger but theirs can't. Even the vet never picked up on this until the last one and I was the one that realized what had to be happening.

You're welcome Anna. I try hard to pass on anything I learn to others especially if it prevents the loss of a pet or a tip that noone told me and that I couldn't find in a book.
 
ok ok your correct. I would of done something like that myself. I kind of did jump the gun:shootfoot
 
No problem :) we all do this from time to time. Welcome aboard....
 
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