• 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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    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.

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Yeah I was noticing today that my one of my snakes that I tamed down became aggressive again. Not sure what happened but noticed when it is touched it vibrates tail and then strikes and tries to musk you. This snake has not always been the nicest snake and was even traded to me as a mean snake so I knew it was a mean snake already. I am not really asking anything but more or less complaining cause it has bitten me about a total of 15 times and I have only owned it 1 month. Odd thing is once it has bitten it calms down and even don't mind its head touched. Guess it must just be a butthole I would have thought maybe it was insecure in its enclosure but this thing sits on top of her rock and stays there without really using any hides.

Oh yeah this was an Albino Cali King, I am curious if being albino might make it more aggressive cause I always heard albino animals can't see well to begin with.
 
i have a chocolate and white male cal king same acts the same way!Want him?LOL
 
lol. That makes me feel better to know someone elses cal king is that way. They are intimidating when they are striking their butt off. Thats funny everyone in my area asks me the same thing I end up taking a bunch of mean snakes.

I noticed once I get the bites over with they are calm down a lot.
 
Cal kings are very commonly like that. I've kept many dozens of them over the years and the vast majority were not trust worthy. I'm not one to handle them very often either so that just added to the issue.

Once they grow out of the super defensive stage, then they're just in full time feeding mode so they still try to bite something every time the drawer is opened. Only then it's followed by constricting the finger.
 
lol yeah I am starting to notice how hungry they can always be. I got a knoblochi that is aggressive at feeding and even the other day it hissed striking a mouse. Startled me a little when it did must have been extra hungry. But the knoblochi is ok to handle and still has yet to bite, rattle the tail or anything like that. Truly a pleasure to have.
 
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