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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.

Scarlet king snake

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Today I was out back of the house, checking on two mouse traps I had put behind the door of the crawlspace underneath the house when I noticed something brightly colored moving around by my feet. Well, I'll be darned. It was a scarlet king snake. Haven't seen any of them around here for a long while. I picked it up and walked it around to the front door to show Connie. All the while this little demon was chewing the hell out of my hands. It was about a foot long, but it sure seemed to think it could kill me.

So after showing Connie my prize, I just let it go in front of the house where I had just been watering some of Connie's plants.

Sorry, but no pics. Just didn't feel like messing with it. Besides, from lack of responses I have gotten to my pics and videos in the past, most here don't give a damn about them anyway. So why bother?
 
Well I, for one, appreciate the stuff you post 🙂. You guys have all kinds of critters down there that we don't see up here. I'm glad Connie is home, and I hope you both are feeling better.
 
I like your photos, too. :)

"So after showing Connie my prize"

Does she actually appreciate cool snake finds, or just enjoy that you get excited about them (like my family does when I show them what I caught)?
 
I like your photos, too. :)

"So after showing Connie my prize"

Does she actually appreciate cool snake finds, or just enjoy that you get excited about them (like my family does when I show them what I caught)?

I think she likes seeing them. More than once she has come bursting into the house telling me to get my shoes on and follow her, to show me a snake she had found somewhere on the property.

She gets all excited when the baby lizards are hatching out. I don't think she is as crazy about the snakes, though, as many of them likely would eat "her" lizards. I was monitoring a Carolina wren nest a few years ago with a game camera, and when we were viewing the footage, we had to sit through a gray rat snake climbing into the nest and eating the babies. She got REALLY upset over that, and said she doesn't like snakes much any longer. So when we find gray rat snakes around here, I have to catch them and take them for a ride somewhere to release them. I would rather that they hang around and eat the rodents, but they got on Connie's sh!t list now.Don't mess around with her lizards or her birds. Actually she is afraid of birds, but has a few favorites she likes to watch. Crows and doves in the bird feeders are NOT on that list. But as for the rest, she tries hard to keep them all from going hungry.
 
It is funny how we can like an animal until it messes with one we like more. :)

Do you get many raptors at your place? Once in a great while we'll get a sharp shinned hawk (that's what the last one was, anyway) taking out some poor bird in our yard -- I recall a woodpecker of some sort that was a bit hard to watch. Difficult to take sides on that one.
 
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