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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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Sheffield MA Responds to Timber Rattlesnake Bite 22 Y/O Male

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Well just about Fifteen minutes ago a call went through the scanner for a male of 22 years of age, just bitten while hiking down a mountain by a Timber Rattlesnake.

A light tourniquet was advised to be applied while the bite victim is transported to Bay state Medical Hospital for Treatment. It was reported that the hiker was walking down with emergency responders to wait for the ambulance.


Hopefully this guy didnt get too serious a bite. And HOPEFULLY they wont/did not kill the snake. ( I did call in to let the responders know to NOT kill the animal, if possible, because they are not in high numbers around the area. )

What a way to start the Fourth of July huh? I Feel bad that its going to take him awhile to get to Bay State.
 
What a shame.
It sounds like it was a completely innocuous bite.
If I remember correctly, the Timber rattler has one of the most potent bites of the different Rattlesnake species.
Best of luck to him.
 
Turns out they were doing research on the animals/microchipping/tracking which, working so closely with the animals... is probably why this guy was bit. So i feel much better at the fact that the snake was probably A OK :)

Now i hope the guy ends up alright!!!! Ill keep this thread updated with any information I get.
 
I didn't even see it on the news. I guess I was out of it. At least he went to Baystate. They have everything there. Do you know how he made out?

How is the snake? They didn't out it down did they?
 
I didnt hear about this either. I've been hiking rattlesnake hill and the surrounding area for the last 2 weeks and the most I've found was black racers, Big Garters and 1 Agkistrodon contortrix(copperhead).

Hope that guys alright. and I really hope they didnt kill the C. horridus.
 
bloodpython_MA said:
I didnt hear about this either. I've been hiking rattlesnake hill and the surrounding area for the last 2 weeks and the most I've found was black racers, Big Garters and 1 Agkistrodon contortrix(copperhead).

Hope that guys alright. and I really hope they didnt kill the C. horridus.
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Nah, they didnt, i just called to make sure they wouldnt... Since the FD knows who i am and also knows that i like these animals.

The guy is recovering, though the age is not 100% * Ill have to ask to get better info* When i wrote this, it had just run through on the scanner, and that information is usually not 100% until confirmed by officials :)

Local paper here made up quite a few facts... about the incident, basically making the animals look bad, which irked me. Dont print a story unless you have some pretty good information. They made up quite a bit...
 
Mooing Tricycle said:
Nah, they didnt, i just called to make sure they wouldnt... Since the FD knows who i am and also knows that i like these animals.

The guy is recovering, though the age is not 100% * Ill have to ask to get better info* When i wrote this, it had just run through on the scanner, and that information is usually not 100% until confirmed by officials :)

Local paper here made up quite a few facts... about the incident, basically making the animals look bad, which irked me. Dont print a story unless you have some pretty good information. They made up quite a bit...
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Have you ever seen "The Corporation"? It's on youtube and has some interesting stuff about media coverage in it.

some parts that i think u might find interesting
*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkDikRLQrw ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi63rXnuWbw

interesting that somepeople think that we're getting the whole story all the time(or any of the time at that matter)

just something to think about
Rob
 
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