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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.

Wallabies and Dogs

Sirengarg

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I have been considering adding an exotic to the mix. Its been something I've been thinking about for a couple of years, not impulse. I've worked with exotics, including big cats, so I do have experience with large and small exotics from tigers to sugar gliders.

However, I honestly have had no long term experience with wallabies. I've petted and fed them at zoos, but that was my extent of experience with them.

I do have 4 dogs. They have been raised among many types of animals, including "prey" animals such as rodents, birds, rabbits, etc. I've never left them alone with these prey animals, but on supervised playtimes, they have had no issues.

I came to the idea of the wallaby because: I want a herbivore. I don't want an exotic that is potentially very dangerous. The city I live in considers my first choices (pigs and goats) to be livestock, but with the permit, I can have a wallaby (go figure!). I am prepared to make an enclosure. So far most of what I read said 50x50. But I would prefer it be a "house wallaby", using the enclosure mostly for safe off leash exercise, when we can't supervise it, and sunbathing. I read their poop is like deer or goat pellets, and I read there is a chance I can paper train it. But if that does not happen, we got tile throughout most the house.

My biggest concern is...dogs and wallabies. Anyone have experience with the two together? I know in most cases, when you raise animals together, they get along. I would never leave the roo and dogs alone. I have two shepherd mixes, a pit bull mix, and a chihuahua.

I'm not as concerned with the dog's reaction to it, but more actually...the differences in how these two animals play. I don't want my dogs to get torn up by the wallaby's nails and I don't want the wallaby to freak out should the dogs play bite it as they do each other when they play. My dogs do understand the need to play differently with other species. As they never bite at the rabbit. The rabbit plays with them, chasing them, jumping on them, kicking them and the dogs hop around the rabbit trying to get the bunny to chase them (I do so need to video tape this). I think they will see the wallaby as a big rabbit. Least that's my hope. And thus down play the play-bite and go more with the "chase me" hopping around.

Any other info from wallaby owners would be appreciated. I don't plan to do any purchase any time soon. I am thinking more 6 months to a year (maybe more). I do need to check out the permit process. And want the enclosure built before it gets here. I do know a vet who is just 30 minutes away who sees exotics, and said he can be my vet for a wallaby.
 
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