• IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! This concerns the future of this site.

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    Posted 07/14/2025
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    Putting this at the top so it will more likely be read rather than skipped over.

    If you read below, you will see that I disabled the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025 in the hopes that I could get you all to donate AT LEAST $25 per day to make up the shortfall such an action would entail to financially support this site. I just got finished checking the stats through PayPal of the previous 6 months, and I plainly see that this did not happen. Yes, some people donated more that the bottom level Contributor Membership, but equally plain is that most people don't give a crap as long as they get a place to advertise their animals and merchandise for free. Well excuse me. I asked for help and apparently that fell on a lot of deaf and uncaring ears. Do you feel it unfair of me to want to make some money from this site, just as YOU are apparently wishing to do? I sure do hope that concept doesn't shock and offend you. But it is what it is. As such I will be reinstating that Google Adsense Ads as soon as I get around to it .

    Burdensome are they? Well, I don't like them either, but I gave you the opportunity to show me they weren't needed to keep this site financially solvent. You blew it. Don't like the ads and want to go elsewhere? Sorry about that. Bye bye. Good luck to you. You left me no choice if this site is going to remain alive. It is either that or I just pull the plug on this site and you all will HAVE to go elsewhere. Yes, I know some people will be overjoyed by such a move, and personally I really don't care about that. I have done my part as best I can. I really don't need to be doing this AT ALL.

    And please, don't come to me asking me to donate this site to you. Screw that. I didn't go through all the headaches running this site for decades to just GIVE it to someone. I would just as soon see it become just a footnote in the history books.

    Do I sound angry? Sorry if I come across this way. In reality, I am just VERY disappointed in the whole herp industry in how they treated this site. Snubbed it, really. Oh well. I guess it was my fault for expecting (hoping?) for more out of people.

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    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 of 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.
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  • Utta
    shipping isnt too bad if you use the greyhound. just have to pick it up, but its $80 for 2 of the boxes. and yep! i stocked up for a little bit. freezer is PACKED.
    Utta
    nice! I'm still looking for a Rabbit supplier that i dont have to get shipped to me. 'till then, its R-pro's g-pigs and xx(x)l rats.
    Utta
    hey Jim! it works exactly like these VMs do. its really just line after line.
    Utta
    no, hes deff not het g-stripe. hes a platty tiger. lol. just need a pic of him outside on a sunny day. once you get a pic of that, then it'll scream him being a platty. he has the thin silver "peaks", the super bright yellow outline on the "peaks", the eyes look like they have that silver and golden granite look, his tiger dashes are bled with yellow, his tail colour doesnt get much lighter then his neck area and all those are markers on platty tigers.

    honestly, i think him being half jamp is messing with his colours a bit. thats why its throwing people off.
    Utta
    I don't understand how people can think he's not a platty tiger? What did they say?
    Utta
    oh, hes a platty bro. There's no way he can't be. If he was just a jamp tiger, his colour would NEVER be that intense. I wont turn down more pics of him though. ;) have any baby pics of him?
    Utta
    like War Pig? hes got that super sexy busy tiger pattern (i don't like stripped tigers as much as the classic tiger) and has that heavy platinum colour. MAN hes a good lookin boy ;)
    Utta
    The normal tiger pattern is simply one of the best there is. I don't like the pattern on suntigers, or any other colour mutation that messes with the tigers pattern. Platty, citron, and genes that just enhance the colour of the tiger, are the only other alternative to the tiger, IMO. ;)

    and thanks for the comment Jim.
    Utta
    i know how hard it is to try and get a good pic of a squirmy retic, for every good photo, theres 15 that you deleted.
    Utta
    I hope you get some great pics of her. I know how hard it can be to get their true colours.
    Utta
    i dont know if you have a nice camera, but try and get as accurate of a shot of her "yellow" as you can. worst comes to worst, you have a stunning true SD with beautiful eyes.
    Utta
    if shes not an anery, then thats one of the best SD's ive seen in a while. have you put her next to a proven non-anery to compair? might have a nice little surprise in her bro ;)
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