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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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Python kills toddler

You are very right that they wont listen but the thing is why would they want to listen when all they need to hear is more ways to get more money out of the people. All they need to hear is lets charge a fee and they are all for it. They have permitted us to death just to justify more fees. I agree with You that we need to do everything we can to not give them a reason to be able to take our rights away but I just dont know how we can do that when the other side is there waveing the money at them and we all know they follow the bucks.
 
its not really a money trail, it is much more of a FEAR issue. They use the general publics stupidity and help make laws like this legal with titles like " Stop the importation of the dangerous burmese python" when yet in reality it does much much more than just that.

Besides, Haven't you noticed That a BIll is like 200 plus pages, and they get 24 hours to read it, who do you really thinks reads that whole thing? the Title, and summary is all they read, and if it sounds good, it gets passed. Thats how stupid little laws make there way in, the politicians Being paid to read these, simply aren't.
 
I agree that if we regulated ourselves, the government wouldn't have problems to use against us, but that's never going to happen. There will always be people who own giant snakes and keep them in insecure cages. There will always be people who release their pets when they don't want them anymore. There will always be people who would rather act on an irrational, ignorant fear than try to educate themselves and overcome it.

Unstoppable force meets immovable object. :(

I'm not saying we shouldn't even try--quite the contrary. It just seems futile most of the time.
 
Self regulation requires the cooperation of the uneducated, the errogant, the stupid, and the greedy; none of which will ever self regulate in any form. I agree that I don't like regulation, but it is unavoidable at this point. That is why I think the hobbyists need to draft the solution and present it in a sellable fashion, as a lesser of the evils type situation.
 
Anyone else notice how both parents were recently arrested for manslaughter in the third degree, and child neglect? So its a case of who done it???

We all know the python didn't, but it still fueled a hell of a fire for us to fight, and in the end the snake's just as much a victim as the child.
 
They both got charged because they are both culpable. Turns out SHE owned the snake.

As I always said when I worked juvenile probation in this state and told some parents "unfortunately there's no law that says you can't be a dirt bag."

I'm going to go out on a limb and make a few guesses here (and some established truths) about these folks:

Lack of legal, gainful employment
Ignorance and apathy about the law (see step-dads previous offenses and offenses after the child's death)
IQs below the 100 level (probably much lower)
Children that probably don't have much of a chance in life (including the unborn)

Basically, a couple of ass-hats who would have stayed off the radar if they didn't drag an innocent child into their messed up world.

I've got no sympathy at all for the low-life guy or the woman who let him pollute her womb. Hopefully the state makes sure they never know the one that's in there now!
 
I'm not from the USA and not in the USA, so this doesn't affect me directly, but I just wondered....

Given, from what has been posted here, that it looks as though this bill is coming like a freight train, and that herpers will likely be outvoted by the snake-fearing majority, I'd think that trying to get regulations on the big 5 that you can live with, to avoid being blanket-regulated by outsiders, would be a priority.

As there are already licensing /permit requirements on "hots", you have a system in place. Can't this be extended to licensing the big 5 on the grounds that these are all snakes that IF MISHANDLED can be dangerous?

Just a thought from an outsider, I realise there may be issues I haven't picked up on.
 
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