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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.

Theres more to the pitbull ban than meets the eye!!!

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First off, i don't agree with the ban. Anything with teeth can bite and even my toy breed (Papillion) can dish out a nasty bite.

What is concerning me more than ever is that Michael Bryant has included some very vague rules with the legislation that don't even refer to pit bulls at all. Police now have the right to come into your home and remove and or distroy any dog deemed to be a menance. This means that if your neighbour doesn't like your dog they can call officials and bye bye doggy.

They have failed first, in not defining what exactly *menacing behaviour* means (is a barking dog now considered menacing because it barks at people who walk by the house?) and second because they didn't get input from any experts on dogs or pitbulls. Instead they went straight to what they felt would satisfy the majority of the public. Michael Bryant couldn't even pick out the pitbull on a sheet with 20 dogs. This causes more of a rift because now owners of dogs that *LOOK* like a pitbull will have to prove it isn't. How many people have actual papers stating that? So if you don't and you can't prove it your dog could be up for the needle.

If he had taken the time to listen to the experts for even one second he could have introduced legislation that would actually be affective and reduce bites. As i see it now, they haven't solved the problem. Getting tough with owners of mistrained and violent dogs is one, a muzzle is another. Very simple.
 
I am sorry to see your politicians are as ignorant as ours. "Dangerous breed" legislation has a long history of failure. It never works the way they intend.

Good luck with your Papillon, you probbaly should not have admitted they can bite though. Could be the focus of the next legislation.
 
My opinion is that politicians aren't the brightest light bulbs on the Christmas Tree LOL. It boggles my mind that they would leap way ahead of themselves to please the majority of the public on this issue but bring up health care, unemployment, taxes, the skyrocketing cost of gas, hydro, education etc. and they just sit back with the attitude that there isn't enough money.

All animals bite, its a natural characteristic of survival. Those that work with that to make an animal overtly agressive are the ones that need to be punished! People tend to give animals human characteristics of revenge, hate etc. which is wrong. My dog bit me because i was taking away something from him. He wasn't angry at me, he simply wanted it back and tried to get it the only way he can, by using his mouth. The fact that his aim was off isn't his fault.

When banning anything becomes acceptable it only serves to spark more bans and infringe on peoples rights. Humans have a way to go from one extreme to another. So first you ban one dog, then all dogs (cause they can ALL bite), then cats, then hey look alcohol leads to injury lets ban that and well smoking and gambling and... Accidents happen, people get hurt, sick etc. but bans aren't the way to solve the problems. I'm scared of the domino effect and once it starts it can't be stopped.
 
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