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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.

Ohio ban bill to list all venomous, and all constrictors

I bought my first boas, pythons, monitors, tegus, caiman, etc from local pet stores in Milwaukee WI in 1965. Since then local pet stores here and all over the country have been continually selling these animals. Now all of a sudden they will all be illegal to own. Isnt this like allowing drug dealers to openly sell drugs, but its illegal for the user to buy them? Why isn't the criteria for regulation whether or not they are freely available at retail? Big Carnivores, venomous, yes-no pet stores sell those anyway and it is not a pitfall for the owner. Nonvenomous reptiles, whether constrictors or not, are out there in huge numbers. That makes for a lot of new criminals to feed into the justice and prison system, disenfranchise, and further empower the ruling class of neocons into an electoral majority.
 
BobOblak said:
Why isn't the criteria for regulation whether or not they are freely available at retail? Big Carnivores, venomous, yes-no pet stores sell those anyway and it is not a pitfall for the owner.
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Whoa...this is a pretty arbitrary line. ALL exotic animal owners should be working TOGETHER. Ideas like this, however benign they seem to you, is exactly the result the AR groups want. Divide and conquer.
 
Anyone hear anything from USARK yet? I've got the fax fired up and am ready to fight.
 
"Most reptiles are not widely available for purchase, would you really want the ownership of most reptiles illegalized?"

In my city, most are, except for crocodilia and venomous, so I assumed they are as readily available elsewhere as well.
 
BobOblak said:
In my city, most are, except for crocodilia and venomous, so I assumed they are as readily available elsewhere as well.
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Dang, what city is that?

You do realize that there are over 8,000 species of reptiles, [even excluding crocodilians and venomous snakes] right?
 
This is ridiculous. Law makers probably feel like a swift generalized ban after the Zanesville lion/tiger/bear escapes last week will pass. It won't.
 
sea-aggie said:
Whoa...this is a pretty arbitrary line. ALL exotic animal owners should be working TOGETHER. Ideas like this, however benign they seem to you, is exactly the result the AR groups want. Divide and conquer.
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Exactly!!

There is a very famous old quote-from way back in WWII-that sort of applies.

"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out."

-Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller-

Substitute different animal species for the different ideological/religious/political references, and you'll see what I mean.

We have to do our very best to employ GOOD HABITS in keeping our animals, and give exotic keeping a GOOD NAME, or they could ALL be taken away.

RESPONSIBILITY FIRST!!

And we all have to stick together-regardless of the types of animals we keep!!
 
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the only reason for this is due to the jack ass that just let loose 56 tigers, lions, bears, wolves last weak. you get someone who lost his wife and is about to loose his animals since the gov wanted to shut him down and he decides to let them all go and kill himself. not the smartest thing you could do. but because of this they want every exotic pet owner to pay the price . i think people should have some regulations on certain things but it is our God give rite to own what we want on our own land and no one should be allowed to take that away!
 
We need to start a FAX and letter campaign. Does anyone have a link to the Ohio legistrators that might be sympathetic to our cause? I'm sending a FAX to the sponsors but I'm guessing they won't listen to reason and it's a waste of time.

I don't think I want to be a class 5 felon.
 
So it seems like this bill is getting less press among the herp community as I'm not seeing much discussion of it as compared to the past USFW proposed regs. Does this only concern Ohio or the whole country? It needs to be fought either way, no doubt about it...
 
I feel ashamed that out of staters are doing more for ohio reptiles than I am. I have sincere appreciation for all that are helping and would personally like to know what i can do to help more... Other thqn liking the facebook page... I already did!

Thank you
 
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