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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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The Day I knew was coming...

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Well i have a fine story to tell about my first boa...haha

Okay i finally got my thermostat wired so i could move the snake out of this room and into mine. I took the water bowl out of the tank and then just carried the tub with her in it over to the new spot...i have a feeling that was my first mistake...So i get her over to the new spot and take off the top and she doesn't look to be very agitated...I go to pick her up to set her outside the tub so i could tape the heat tape and the probe and clean her cage and BAM she TRIES to tag me...so i'm like what the heck 15 minutes ago i picked you up and you were fine now you're trying to eat me. SO for my second mistake i get down on my hands and knees and just look at her and try to distract her with one hand and pick her up with the other...that didn't work either, just agitated her more. Then i got closer to her face and BAM out of no where she comes striking right AT MY FACE...so i'm like okay what in the world is wrong. I left her there with the top off till she crawled out on her own and then let her calm down while I fixed her tub up. So i got her tub fixed up and she looked calm but as soon as she saw my hand move she was watching it like a hawk...I don't know WHAT was up with her today. So i tried to pick her up anyways and BAM my first boa bite. It was nothing like i expected. It hurt a tad but not too bad. She has a lot more teeth than i thought. The bite is just like a ton of holes...pretty wierd. Well i ended up getting her back in her cage with a coat hanger. Tomorrow is feed day so i guess ill try to handle her again tomorrow before i feed. Haha just thought I'd share my first boa bite tale!
 
A right of passage!

I've always described boa bites as being hit by a hammer with teeth.
Of course, I guess it's all relative - based on the size of the boa.
 
all my young and subadult boas are always as sweet as can be but 2 of my adults (which i purchased as adults)were a little wary. one day my 8.5+ ft female tagged me goodi think i counted like over twenty holes just from part of the top of my hand with some on bottom... not fun.
ive since learned how to read my animals and have adapted my aproach for them and i dont even see any more attitude. makes for a good story tho.
check this out tho. one time at a local pet store i was grabbed right on my head by huge burmese. also makes for a good story but even less fun.(basterd didnt even let go just hung there)
 
I also got my first bite recently...

... my newest little Hog Island was having a tough shed. So I had some shed aid stuff in a little pump spray and, since she had retained eyecaps (stuff said to spray directly on retained caps) I sprayed her eyes.... well, she didn't like it, lashed out immediately and got me on the thumb. Not really painful, just like a pinprick with four little holes. Didn't even hurt an hour later and I definitely learned to start spraying her BODY first!

:) Since then she's had a nice clean shed and her eyecaps came off, so all's well that ends well.
 
one time at a local pet store i was grabbed right on my head by huge burmese. also makes for a good story but even less fun.(basterd didnt even let go just hung there)
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ive seen the scars. about how big would you say that burmese was vinny?
 
12 ft my estimate. 9 the pet stores.couldve been 20 for all i care. i was pulling teeth out for a couple minutes then had to have the docters take care of the rest. the jerk who was handling it ripped it off my head when it didnt let go.
when my boa tagged me i just stopped moving and let her let go for fear of hurting her and breaking off teeth.
 
My turn

I've been bit by just about every boa I've owned, although all but two of them were babies that really didn't hurt. Those just kinda startle ya bit. The two that I will always remember are a 5.5ft, male Suriname and a 10ft. ColombianXCosta Rican female.
The Suriname was a recent purchase from a friend's petstore, and he'd warned me about how powerful a feeding response this sweet and gentle snake had. About a week after gettting him home, we gave him his f/t rat, but we NEVER gave it to him last again.
My guess is he smelled all the other food in the room long before he got any, and it made him a little :nuts: . Well I opened his cage and he was hiding under his paper. I dropped the rat, and BAM!!! That was the first bite I'd gottn from a really nice sized snake, and wow, I thought he took my whole hand! The real trick came when I realized that he was now crawling around my feet as I was bleeding all over him. Somehow I was able to convince him a box was a nice place to hide, and then easily transferred him back to his cage where he happlily started to eat. An hour and half later the bleeding stopped and all was well.
The worst bite I've ever gotten from any snake was my female 10ft. ColombianxCosta Rican. She got my hand (yes, the whole thing). She'd just given birth, and we were removing here to a cage to reduce the bite risk HA-HA when this tired, and weary looking snake hit me with every thing she had! She broke my hand in four places, dislocated my thumb and pinky, and left me 9 teeth, right in the fleshiest part of my hand.
The worst part of getting bit by something like that is dealing with the critter long enough to secure them while you're in that much agaonizing PAIN!
The lesson learned? We don't keep their cages on carpet anymore. LOL No, now we use two people with hooks to remove the females to their temporary home.
Thanks for reading my stupidity :)
Anthony
 
harrellharrell said:
She broke my hand in four places, dislocated my thumb and pinky, and left me 9 teeth, right in the fleshiest part of my hand.
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you win
 
broken bones from a boa bite, DAYUM!

I've been bitten by everything BUT a boa, haha

the worst was when i was bitten by a 6 foot female burm anout 5 years ago, i paniked and pulled my hand away, ripped some skin straight off and left about 7 big teeth imbeded in my skin, my second worst was when i was bitten 5 times in a row by a WC male ball python, he lunged at me while i was picking him up to get ready to be shipped, after he tagged me i tried to grab him behind his head, that didnt work, he ended up getting me 3 more times on my forearm and then once more on my hand
 
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