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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.

New Comer Troubles

Welcome to the club. I have been bitten so many times and it still makes me jump.As soon as I see them coil I step back and grab from behind. Dont give up eventually he wont be afraid but try to grab him from the back. With that many bites I'd b po too
 
Welp another update ... we had a special doctors appointment for my husband in the "big city" and took him to see a vet.

Took them both really.

Anyway, Robbie the bigger one has an RI like i suspected.
I told her what id been doing and she gave me some medicine or antibiotics to crush in his food (she said since I live so far away, checkups and visits would cost way more and thought that what she was giving me would be better, since id be able to treat him at home instead of driving 2 1/2 hours every time he needed to be checked on by the vet)... and she says hes actually doing great for the amount of scarring, problems and other things... hes also in shed.

But, she told me that, i did the best on my circumstances and that he looks like hes recovering and the antibiotics/medicine is just a precaution to help him along and give him a boost.
So yay for me. I feel awesome.

Lucky on the other hand, she cringed physically when I took him out of his little box.
She said i did good getting him out of the enviornment he was in, and i told her that they had been just putting him into a cage with live animals and walking away.
We were both angry and ranted for 10 minutes about the whole situation.
But he is doing f**** spectacular.
His wounds are healing and hes doing much better.
She says he probably is still in some pain, but gave him a clean bill of health --- which shocked the hell out of me since he was in the same cage as Robbie, who has the RI.. so weird --- besides the large scarring on his sides.
She said that he will always be marred by his past, but to give him TLC and some FROZEN food (i told her, oh god id never give live animals for food to any of my reptiles), and to just take care of him best as i can.

I also went to petsmart, got a cool branch and new hide for our timor monitor Spike, and got some... Zoo Med... wound and burn healer or something, made out of some oils i cant pronounce so im slathering neosporing and that all over him (which leaves my hands mighty nasty ill tell you what).


But after seeing the vet (thank god since they were really busy and i was just a walk in) and hearing that im doing good i feel on top of the world today!

Thanks for the advice guys, and its good to know hes a little regular BP instead of something cool.. which i figured anyway.

Okay, off to do some searching for turtles for my mother in law!
 
Also, correction, she gave me some weird paste crap that was supposed to be like... you would give soft dog food to a dog with medicine mixed in.. same thing.
 
If one has ri the other will have it soon. Keep an eye on the other. Glad there getting better.What did they give u for the ri
 
Welp another update folks.

I guess it took a while for Robbie to come out of blue and go completey into shed, which was a total mess this afternoon.
I had to get out a nice big tub and fill it with warm water and just sat around for the whole lunch hour I got today just gently rubbing the shed skin off of him.
It was stuck in some nasty places, his vent, both eyes, parts of his neck and pits on his nose and face.
He was still wheezing a bit, but hes looking and acting better.

Also on closer inspection I do believe he is blind in one eye. The more I get to know him, the more I realize, he didnt see this or that or my husband or me walking by him on that side of his face.
He was so surprised when my husbands hand showed up "out of nowhere" that he jerked back. So I think hes blind in one eye.
Hubby suggested that he is a trouble shedder, maybe theres just lots of layers of skin on his eye thats making his eyesight bad.
But who really knows.
(also, the vet gave him some fortas or fartaz for medication... im at work and dont have the medication in front of my face lol).

Lucky on the other hand is still not showing any symptoms of RI and his wounds look great.
They are healing and I do believe im starting to see some new "skin/scales" knit over the yucky parts.
Its a really rewarding thing.

I still cant get either of them to eat F/T mice, so I went out and bought some baby mice for Lucky and then an adult for Robbie and ive tried to get them to eat, but with all the trauma thats going on in their lives at the moment, I dont think either of them were willing enough to eat yet.
So we will wait until tomorrow (sunday 3/4), to see if they are ready to eat.

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But so far they are doing great, going through the motions of healing n whatnot and as soon as a month or two goes by, ill probably put Lucky up for adoption on here and maybe hold on to Robbie as a private thing.
Just because I do believe that Lucky is meant for bigger things rather than a show pet (just for show no breeding involved! lol) and id like him to go to a good home.
Of course all the adoption stuff will be after they are deemed healthy and healed up enough, and that could take upwards of a whole year... so who really knows.
I guess the adoption thing is the end goal at the moment that I have in mind!

:)
 
at some point you will have to update us with pic's. I did alot of wildlife animal rehab in FL, mostly for gopher tortioses, yellowbelle and soft shell turtles and you are 100% correct. It really does make you feel good deep inside when you see these animals survive and thrive, when they would have surely perished with out your help. These guys will struggle to survive to the very end, and it's the helping hand you give them that makes their recovery possible. You rescued them from an otherwise impossible situation, from many weeks of increased pain and impending ultimate doom.
 
I created a little website for myself so i can rant and rave and just babble on incoherently about many other things that go on in my life.

Its like a journal, but not too personal.

Anyway, I realized I hadnt taken very many pictures of both of the snakes (barring the ones of Lucky's wounds), and went through and got a whole bunch of them.

Robbie in these has freshly shed, and my god he is a handsome boy.
He is all gold and bronze, with that dark 'snake black' that im so fond of (its why i love anery cornsnakes).

Lucky is all mad at me still for putting stuff on him, so his picture is from outside of the aquarium I have him in.

Today though, is the day where I go through and just hard clean/disinfect everything in my reptile room.
Gah the whole place is going to smell like bleach and trifectin...

Trifectin is a industrial strength cleaner that I got from the animal shelter where I work when we switched cleaners.
They gave me the last of it and its supposed to protect against fungus, bacteria and virus's (including parvovirus if anyone wants to google it), and its the only thing that makes me feel "safe" after ive cleaned stuff since... honestly bleach and water dont make me feel like everything is really "clean".

So here are some update pics!
 

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Update::

Well I finally got both of the snakes to shed again, and they both ate, so I am happy at the moment that they are getting healthier.

Only problem I ran into is when Lucky was shedding, my god it looked like it hurt him so bad... watching all the skin and HUGE scars and scabs coming off of him with his skin.
I had to help him a little but we got through it and only his neck still has shed on it (he was getting a little annoyed at me and struck a couple times so I put him back in his hide when I finally got his rear end finished).

But here are some update pictures of his wounds and I think they are healing spectacularly.
 

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What a huge difference from the earlier photos. You must be thrilled with their progress.
 
great job and the snakes will shed frequently whether eating regularly or not. the wounds entice the immune system to go into the shed process quicker than normal to heal.

its healing very well. you want them to shed as frequent as possible until healed over. even feeding them smaller meals a little more often (ie, if they generally take medium rats once a week or thats the plan, then do like a small rat every 5 days or so), to get them to shed more often. the more shed, the quicker and better they will heal. make sure not to get it too humid in there, find that happy medium between what we normally keep their enclosures at and them still shedding well (like 45-50% or so). also cranking up the hot spot 4-5 degrees will entice and increase healing time and ability.
 
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