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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.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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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.

Tame snapping turtle

Back in the 1990s During my zoo career we had a lady who would call the building to tell us about her chicken turtle which she would dress in clothes and let it sleep in bed with her and her husband.

Ed
 
While there are of course individual differences, my experience is that when a wild type (non-morph) common snapper is raised with a lot of human interaction from a young age, you get very tame or docile behavior in a decent number of instances. They will walk out of an in-ground pond and climb into your lap as you sit in the grass if they really know you and trust you. Just as many will recognize the keeper as the bearer of food, some will seek interaction beyond that provision. I am not sure (yet) that the same applies to albinos. I raised a lot of wild type snappers in my pre-teen and teenage years. I think I had my first hatchling when I was around 5 years old or so.

So far, my albino snapper experiences have the visual acuity difference leading to more frequent wild strikes at movement and vibration whether for catching food or acting in perceived defense. I take efforts to protect the eyes of my albino animals so that they are not subject to discomfort from bright light flooding an unpigmented retina, so they tend to maintain better vision than some kept in harsher lighting, but the visual sense is still notably weaker compared to an animal without compromised eye pigmentation. With growth and interaction, I have seen some calming of the striking behavior and less panic when handled, but the rate of progress towards a more calm animal has been way slower than my experiences with wild type snappers. That said, my albino sample size cannot come anywhere close to my wild type snapper sample size yet.

I would trust a wild type Chelydra I have raised to an adult from a neonate more than I would trust a wild type Manouria I have raised to an adult from a neonate despite the menacing appearance of the former and the friendly appearance of the latter. More checkers with snappers. More chess with Burmese.
 
That's pretty amazing to see. This is the second friendly common snapper ive seen this week.
 
The interesting thing to me is that this snapper actually LOOKS friendly. Quite unlike the ones I used to catch as a kid. They really looked the part of a "snapping" turtle.
 
Here is updated video's of Tank Sept 2020



 
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