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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.

Pandemic dogs and other pets

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I have not heard of any planning but think it is best to plan before help is needed. I do believe that a coronavirus pandemic will happen and that it will not be far in the future. While of course major planning and concern needs to go to the people who will be infected, and their children, I am also concerned also about their pets, especially dogs.

Homes will be needed for those dogs whose people die from the virus, but also there needs to be some sort of community help set up to care for pets while their owner is ill and then be returned to the owners who survive.

From the pictures I have seen, those who are actively ill may be far too sick to walk or feed their dogs, and if they are quarantined daily dog walkers to assist are probably not a good idea in case droplets from the ill person settle on the dog and they become fomites which can infect the walker.
 
I wonder how much of our native fauna population might be capable of becoming a natural reservoir for this virus? Most people don't realize that the bubonic plague is now firmly establish in rodent populations in the Western USA. https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html

Actually, after reading up on the number of some serious pathogens being carried by birds, I'm eyeballing our bird feeders now with a bit of apprehension. Makes me wonder how coincidental the "flu season" is tied with bird migrations.

There also seems to be an inordinate number of these serious pathogens found in China, which leads me to doubt the sanity behind the trading pact that as best I can figure out, has the USA sending chicken products to China for "processing".

I wish that the Country of Origin Labeling requirements were universal and sincerely enforced, but I believe the WTO stuck their noses into that. Quite frankly, I never have, and never will be much inclined to eat ANY foodstuffs that China has anything to do with. Their ideas of sanitation are nowhere near what mine and Connie's are. Heck, the last couple times I got chicken from Zaxbys it didn't taste quite right to me. And my queries to them about where their chicken now comes from have gone unanswered. So I just stopped buying it.

You know, I am shocked that malaria hasn't made a comeback in the SE USA. It used to be a big problem here. https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/index.html

I think the more I read about the number and types of pathogens laying in wait in the environment around us the more I feel like we are surrounded by land mines just waiting for an unlucky move on our part. When I was younger I was dying to visit places like Africa and tropical american areas after reading accounts from naturalists in those fascinating sounding areas. Now? Heck no! And as for going anywhere in Asia, no, I don't think so!

Well, back on topic. As far as this Asian coronavirus threat, pending worse news, I'm feeling like it might not be as bad for non-Asians as it could be. Of course, areas with a large population of Asian-Americans might be in trouble over this.

Connie is being treated by a Chinese acupuncturist that I am considering talking her out of if things take a turn for the worst locally. Nothing against Chinese, but if they have been travelling back to China within the past few months, I don't know how long an asymptomatic carrier sheds virus particles if they have contracted this virus. As best I understand, when someone contracts a virus, they pretty much have it in their system for the rest of their lives. It is only an active and responsive immune system that keeps it at bay.
 
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