• Posted 12/19/2024.
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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.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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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.

Terrible day, god forbid you to feed or spend money on your animals

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I called AC (animal control) today...it was not fun. At all.
I posted on CL about possibly wanting some herp supplies, I ended up driving a little ways becuase a local said he had some racks for sale and some snakes I *might* want to gander at. I figured I might buy the rack if I like it and keep him down a 'network' sort of ya know? FUCK THAT TO PIES!

I got out of the car and asked him nicely for his full name and told him my own. He said his name was Steve then rambled about feeders and asked If I need some first becuase they were in the guest house. Said sure, why not, lets see what you have. When the doors opened the smell of ammonia burned my nose and eyes. I actually cried it was so damn bad. I could almost taste it...

I saw about 4 very dark racks about 7 shelves tall jimmied out of several walmart like closet organizer bins. I thought hopefully this guys only has 1.2 or ever smaller in each. Maybe those are just Mums and pinkies? EIGHT ADULT RATS IN EACH. Thats not even counting the pinkies and the crawlers. Holy fuck. Worse yet, THERE WAS NO BEDDING. Nothing. At all. Just plastic to SHIT, PISS AND SIT/SLEEP IN. The white rats were orange and yellow soaking with urine and liquid feces! I counted 5 DROWNED, I say again, DROWNED IN URINE pinkies one drawer. 6 smashed to nothing becuase they couldn't not step on them.

Ok so I know they are rats. BUT WTF????!!! I offered to go out to a feed store nearby and BUY him a big fucking of aspen. I brought up toilet paper too. God just ANYTHING! Could you imagine giving birth in a 1 cm pool of urine and the sting of a gaping open wound being soaked in feces, urine and smashed up carcasses? I offered to buy the bedding for him gently and tried hard to be nonchalant so he would at least hear me out...

"They are fine now, I hose it out every 3 weeks. Its not worth it to put anything. Saves money."

I just said "its really bad to keep them like this, besides your loosing a lot of profit, I think I have enough at home.". He walked over to the door of his snake room practically yelling and screeching about beautiful his pieds were! GORGEOUS HE SAYS. At this point I was about to tell him that I think I should be heading home now....Seriously...if hes too cheap to even let the rats have toilet paper can you imagine how terrible his snakes must be living? They have to EAT those rats! I shudder to think of the terrible diseases they have!

IT CONTINUES.
He opens the door a little and inside on the tile floor was what I thought to be a DEAD dog. UNTIL IT GOT UP. My immediate response in my brain was AHH FUCK! YOUVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. The eyes of this dog were so far sunken back into head I thought for sure hed gulp and vomit them up. I know on some emaciated dogs you can count ribs, you could see where his organs were in between his ribs. His balls were seriously the only part of this dog with fat on it. I pretty much ran to car screaming "I HAVE TO GO BYE STEVE." and called AC on the way out of the neighborhood. I dont know if AC showed up or not, I did just call an hour ago but they did take my report down and at least the persons I talked too sounded concerned and promised to keep me updated just encase some of the animals were seized and eventually needed homes.

Earlier today I took my 6 hour exams too. My brain...is so done. Im sorry about the terrible grammar and spelling mistakes, I still have the smell of ammonia on me and I swear to god Im getting high off of it.
 
Thank you for having the compassion to help those poor neglected animals!!

There's a place in Heaven for you...I PROMISE!!


A Prayer For Animals

Hear our humble prayer, Oh God, for our friends the animals,
especially for ones who are suffering;
for any that are lost or deserted or frightened or hungry.

We entreat for them all thy mercy and pity.

For those who deal with them,
we ask a heart of compassion, gentle hands and kindly words.

Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to animals
and to show thy blessings to the merciful.

Albert Schweitzer


"If you have men who will exclude any of
God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will
Deal likewise with their fellow men..."
St. Francis of Assisi
 
Heaven will have to battle off Hell for my soul, Ive done enough to not go.

I hope they do get help. :C Maybe ill get a call from them sometime this week. Ill post if do for sure. :) Though I think theyd end up PTS all the animals. The rats and the dog for sure id imagine.

Sorry about the cussing, that was underhanded and shameful. Sorry mod. :C
 
As much as I hate to see any animal euthanized, there's a time and place for it if the animal can't be saved.

I'm sure the dog and rats would see it as a blessing to end their suffering.
 
Yeah, im always one of those people who try everything they can. Id have to agree with you though, its terrible but there is a time...
 
Just post in the Hell forum next time and you can cuss and curse away.

Will you give them a follow up call if they don't contact you?

Thanks for standing up for them, nothing needs to live like that (though it would be fitting if he were forced to)..
 
I recived a call back from the AC.
The dog, rats and his apparently 12 kittens were put to sleep due to dehydration, starvation and quite a long list of parasites. However he took the snakes and left before AC showed up.
 
Hopefully, he'll be on their "watch" list, and pay him a little visit soon to confiscate those poor snakes.

And I hope they fine him and give him some jail time to think about his animal cruelty issues.
 
According to the officer I talked to hes got about 7 years jail time now. They dug up a lot dead dogs and animals in his yard. I seriously hope one of his snake take hold of him and get him around the throat.
 
Wow. I'm so glad you called and they responded, people like that need to never own a living creature again, ever.
 
Id be so pissed if they didnt though! Arizona AC has a reputation for not doing anything for MONTHS. Maybe I just caught them at a good time. :) Hopefully they'll catch him but if he fled to another state AZ AC cant do much but a warrant for his arrest.
 
Too bad they don't count animal lives the same way they do humans.

Technically, this a-hole would be a serial killer...and possibly eligible for the death penalty if you have it in AZ.

You did a good thing for those animals.

Thank you.
 
I dont think thanks to me really is necessary. I mean yeah I called AC on him but honestly someone would have eventually and on top of that is just decent to try to fix a problem and consider all living things. Though you are right Samantha, too bad animal lives arent taken like human lives. :/
 
If you just walked away and kept your mouth shut, who knows how much longer those poor creatures would have suffered. You saw and you acted. Who knows how many others just walked away...makes me angry just to think about it...those animals didn't get into that state over night. Others MUST have seen something, and just didn't give a damn.
 
Well they were kind of hidden way but i guess your right. In my head those folks are just a**holes. :/
 
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