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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.

You dirty little tease!!

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Sooooo first off let me say I can't palpate to save my life....just haven't mastered the technique yet, even when I had a gravid rat snake who laid eggs for me the same day that I had tried to palpate her and couldn't figure out if I felt anything lol....So I can't be 100% on any snakes of mine being gravid or not....someday I'll get it down....now with that said

This is why my pinstripe is a dirty....dirty tease...She went off food shortly after I started pairing her with a super pastel a few months ago...and hasn't eaten for me since

So I took this pic 2 days ago, I had been watching her show her belly a few times and just wanted to get a shot of it....she of course started flipping back over as soon as I opened the tub

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And then I took this 2nd pic today....

I swear to god if she isn't going to lay eggs soon, I don't know how much longer I'm going to let her keep taunting me before I yell at her....hehe

Considering she looks like shes about to take a HUGE dump....but hasn't eaten since about May....I'm going NUTS right now...

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Lay Eggs already!! :angry:
 
LOL,willow isnt it just driving you insane..i have my het clown female doing the same thing..every time i go into her tub and dont see eggs i tell her "your on punishment face the wall"..hahahaha, patience grass hoppa
 
lol yea I'm going crazy....considering I don't know 100% if shes even gravid...

but from watching her...I'm having a very hard time thinking she isn't lol...but with my luck if I get my hopes up, she will end up just being bloated or something lol
 
This drives me crazy. I go insane waiting for eggs. Ya know they are going to pop I just wish they hurry up!!! I am waiting on at least 6 girls still. I had one do a pre lay shed.. Well lets say she was retarded and didnt lay till day 53.. AAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhh!

I wish you luck and a speedy / healthy lay with big perfect eggs.
Ted
 
I hate the wait!! I'm still waiting on 4 more girls, two I'm pretty sure aren't gonna take!

Isn't it frustrating?? I have to laugh about stuff like this sometimes, if ya can't laugh about some of the things our slithering friends put us through I think every one of us would have gone bonkers!!! I'm half way there... Haha jking... I think. :D

Soon enough you'll open her tub and she will be sitting on a big pile of eggs!!! I sure hope so for you!
 
Your expectations are too high, Willow, and she doesn't want to upset you.
Next time you wander past her, just say - in a normal voice - I know you can hear me in there...just lay the damn EGG already.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

(Sorry, Willow, I couldn't help myself. Don't forget, we go in Monday morning)
 
Actually in the same spot with my female pin. The build tells me she can't hold back too much longer though. Hopefully your girls comes through with something for ya real soon.
 
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