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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.

Mother's day!

Laura Fopiano

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Soooo. I went to work like I do every family holiday. Since my move to Ga. I opt to work for those who have children and families that are close.

I had a pretty ok day considering I am going in for shoulder surgery and feeling a bit down.

I come home from work in a decent mood and Bry is really non cholent and rather eh. He says "how was your day baby" " you wanna see something cool"? Me yeah sure. and he brings up these photo's
Not thinking anything different, (we sometimes get emails with friends showing off their litters) DUH, it occurs to me "ARE THOSE OUR BABIES"?!?!? Yeah I can be a little slow lately especially with the streroids that the Docs have put me on until cutting time.

All I can say is OMG!!! We got the first litter of the season WOOT!!!!
24 live 1 slug, 13 normal and 11 hypo. And a Happy Mother's Day to us!!

Of course I had to call me own mother (she was my first call) and tell her that hands were all gooey, she's say's "gooey"?? Yeah mom, WE GOT BABIES!! my mother is one of my greatest cheerleaders. I love you Mom!
 
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24 down, 2,000 to go! lol

Grats Bry and Laura! I'm so happy the wait is over to see some awesome babies!

On a side note, that is a TON of slime... I almost wanna breed boas just so I can toss some of that gunk on the kids for laughs. hahaha
 
Beautiful babies, congratulations!
 
It's about damn time something worked out for you two. :D Looks like a really awesome bunch too. The red one in the middle of the pile, and the clean one to the left of that one, both look like outstanding animals so far. Can't wait to see the post shed pictures.

Congrats to you both! :beer:
 
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It's about damn time something worked out for you two. :D Looks like a really awesome bunch too. The red one in the middle of the pile, and the clean one to the left of that one, both look like outstanding animals so far. Can't wait to see the post shed pictures.

Congrats to you both! :beer:
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LMAO, those are the two we're picking a holdback from. The clean one is our first choice if its a female, the redder one is our 2nd choice if the first is a male. So far our first choice is sexing as a female so I'll check it again after it sheds.

We counted heads today and its 11 hypos, 13 normals. We found a 2nd hypo very similar the high red one and a few of the normals are developing color already.
 
What an awesome mom's day find! Congrats on the great looking litter. I would deff. be holding onto that pink one in the middle of the last photo! smokin'!
 
Nice looking litter. waiting to see post shed pics. Take care.
Dennis
 
3 out of the 4 females. Tigger is our holdback.

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