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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.

Stupid people breeding

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Makes me so mad. I bought a cool looking sand boa female from some random person on facebook...she showed up fine, looked healthy, shipping worked out great. I should mention that she was nowhere near breeding size and that I planned on raising her up for AT LEAST another year before pairing her with a male.

Last week I go into the snake room and have a surprise set of babies. One of them is completely twisted up and dead, another is ALIVE and has a spine so crooked and twisted that it was biting itself, I'm assuming out of pain. Another died the next day. Two other babies that actually made it and seem to be doing well so far. We had to kill the one that was all twisted up just to put it out of it's misery.

Thankfully the mom is fine, but wtf is wrong with people. I wish I could remember her name, I really want to go punch her in the face. Why on earth people pair animals that are way too small is beyond me. Just stupid.

Sorry, just needed to rant.
 
MCMB-2 said:
I bought a cool looking sand boa female from some random person on facebook.
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You might pay a tad more, but if you buy only from those who have taken the time and effort to establish a good reputation both in business and critter care, the stock you are sent will likely reflect that positive reputation.
 
I'm really sorry for those babies :(
 
Lucille said:
You might pay a tad more, but if you buy only from those who have taken the time and effort to establish a good reputation both in business and critter care, the stock you are sent will likely reflect that positive reputation.
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I should have known better, it was a complete impulse buy. I actually regretted it like two days after the fact, but I was already committed. Thankfully the mom is still fine, but yea, I can't even tell you how sad it was seeing that twisted up baby. I almost wish she would have kept her so she could see what she did. Whether she'd actually care or not who knows.
 
Oh man that's harsh, sorry to hear that. Some surprises can be fantastic, but not when the results are like what happened here...
 
Dbz4246 said:
Oh man that's harsh, sorry to hear that. Some surprises can be fantastic, but not when the results are like what happened here...
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Even if the babies all came out fine I'd still be mad. "Getting lucky" and not killing the animals isn't really what I aim for. The mom shouldn't have been anywhere near a male at her size.

And don't take this as a personal attack, I'm just mad at that lady.
 
If I had bought a breeder size animal and had a surprise clutch that's another story. But this mom was probably 100 grams under a good breeding weight (which is huge for sand boas). From what I've read their clutches are usually 10-20, she had 5...just to put it in perspective. And 3/5 ended up dying or came out dead.
 
Read the title and thought this was about people in the trailor parks and the projects, having multitudes of kids for society to support.:rofl:
 
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