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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.

East African Gaboon Viper

Barry, you seem to have a bit of a double standard going on. You consider that you should be free to do and say what you wish, but when others say what they feel, all of a sudden it's 'condemnation'.
I think free handling gaboon vipers is an unusually stupid behavior, and I do not think I should be 'condemned' for saying so.
 
What you don't seem to understand is that YOUR opinion is o.k to put forward, but when you do it in a DISRESPECTFUL way such as you have it's not acceptable. Calling me irresponsible when you don't even know me is a bit of a jump. I'll say this 1 more time, what I do with my snakes is legal in my state(S.C) I'm NOT BREAKING ANY LAWS. I don't mind people not agreeing with what I do, but why the name calling and disrespect?
 
54bogger said:
I'll be at repticon on sept.27th in ladson S.C if you care to discuss this face to face, I wont be hard to find because I'll be wearing this shirt.
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So they sent you a tee shirt and now you feel compelled to trot out the same tired arguments that freehandlers everywhere trot out, so you can tell everyone you took on the majority.
Here, let's save time, everyone's trotted this out before.

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60264&highlight=freehandling+venomous
 
whippet said:
THIS is why eventually all "dangerous" exotic ownership will be banned in this country. This is flat out irresponsible. You hurt the entire community with this crap. This is a news story waiting to happen. I can see the headline now..."South Carolina man killed by the venomous snake he cuddled with. A call for a nationwide ban on ownership to be passed."
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Venomous snakes are not on the list of dangerous exotic animals regulated in Minnesota? City ordinances that are unconstitutional ban them but at the state level venomous snakes are legal to keep. Just because it's a law doesn't mean it's not unconstitutional. The city of Minneapolis had the red light traffic ticket thing for awhile until enough promote put up a fuss and was like hey this is unconstitutional and the Supreme Court found it was unconstitutional. Yeah I get a ticket in the mail because valet ran a red light while I was at work.

Flat out irresponsible? What's your justification of fact that it's flat out irresponsible? Or is it your opinion off your assumption? A news story is generally something that doesn't happen often. Besides riding horses are more dangerous statistically "Man killed by riding a horse. A call for a nationwide ban on ownership to be passed" All the hot keepers need to invest a little time and some money into protecting the right to own venomous snakes.
 
54bogger said:
I just picked her up yesterday, she's between 8 and 10 inch's long apprx. 4 1/2 months old. Her name is Ginger and she's super sweet, no huffing or hissing just calm.
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My first hot was an East African Gaboon and he was all about huff and puff so I named him Mr. Snuggles. That's awesome she's a sweetheart.
 
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Yea Ginger likes to lay on my arm and watch the world go by.LOL She may lightly hiss once and awhile now when being first picked up, she has grown very calm the past 5 months.

BTW- Thanks.
 
I hope this doesn't end bad mate. Very beautiful gabby.
 
Yasin, no one lives forever. I'm not in a hurry to die either!LOL But I don't let fear rule my life either, I do appreciate your concern though. Thanks
 
She has grown quite a bit in the last few months. I love coming back to see her progress. Thanks for the neat pics! It is a dangerous game, but you accept the risk, and in a way I admire that.
 
Free handling hots

Barry, you seem to be very impressed with yourself. I've free handled venomous snakes myself but I'm not proud of it. I was immature, inexperienced, irresponsible and impulsive. I was not brave, bold, or courageous and my balls weren't nearly the size they are now. I'll give you the daredevil and adrenaline junkie titles if you want them since my friends who laid claim to those titles prior and now deceased. It's a numbers game my friend, anyone can handle venomous snakes and not get bit most of the time. I suppose you think there's no reason to wear a seat-belt either as long as you're a good driver.
 
There is not 1 good reason to free handle a venomous snake and it's irresponsible to give the impression that this is a noble/brave thing to do. I love snakes, I love handling snakes, I have many venomous and nonvenomous snakes. There is nothing different or exciting about handling a venomous snake versus a non venomous snake other than the incurred risk. If you get off on dancing with death more power to you but please keep it to yourself. Young people can be impressionable and as dumb as it sounds the possibility of someone wanting to cool like Barry exists as long as threads like this are made. Please be a responsible member of the hot community and stop promoting the dangerous practice of free handling venomous snakes, very simply it's a stupid thing to do. See Jamie Coots if you need proof.
 
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