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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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It's 12am and I'm my way to the emergency room with one of my males, that I think may have over done it a little. Damn one track minds. He's prolapsed. :( I hope they don't have to amputate.
 
Could have probably tried a sugar-water soak before the emergency room. Or Prep-H.
 
Dan,

I did do a sugar soak, and he soaked even more all the way to the emergency room, didn't know about Prep H...LOL. I've never had to deal with this before and I didn't want to do anything wrong. I also didn't want to wait too long, and have him castrated. You would want me to do that to you, would you? LOL

Well, the vet was great! He got it back in, but when he picked him up again to check on him, it popped back out. So they gassed the little guy and that took a while, cause he kept holding his breath...LOL He put one stitch in off to the side just to keep it in. I'll take him to my other vet in the morning and have her take a look at him. He's alert and happy to be home. Had to rearrange his tub thou. In case it pops back out, I placed a damp dish towel under, tamp paper towels then changed the moist hide to damp paper towel and removed his dry hide for tonight. This way if it does pop out, it won't dry up and cause more problems.

All I have to say is the $107 was well worth it, with me not knowing for sure what to do, or how long I should risk it being like that.
 
Tonya,

Prolapsed, is when the internal organs are coming out thru the vent. In this case it was his little wiener...LOL. It woudn't go back in, and this can cause big problems if not taken care of.
 
Felicia, No I wouldnt want that for the little guy!

It is good since you didnt know, but if it happens the best thing is just keep it moist, clean, do soakS (more than one), and Prep-H does work Im told. Then if you dont see improvement, a vet would be great.

I just know if its an 'emergency', can be a pain in the wallet. And you should be able to hold out for non-emergency for that, depending.

Well, glad everything came out ( or went back in) OK. LOL
 
Well, it was good. :( He pooped and it came out again....damn. I've got him soaking agian. At least it looks like the swelling is going down. I guess I'm staying up all night. :hot:
 
Ahhh, sorry to hear. Ide maybe call and see if the stitch will get in the way of it retracting(?)
 
I was calling before you even posted it...lol. Poor little guy.

One of my employees asked if I have him on Viagra...LOL
 
What a nice vet. He's going to refund my surgery charge ($30) and he'll take the stitch out for no charge too. :)
 
I took him back and the doctor took out the stitch so it wouldn't constrict him. He also gave me a referral to a very very good herp vet, not too far from me, and refunded the surgery charge. I called there at 6:45am to find out their hours and exact location, and someone answered, they were open already! I thought I would get an answering machine. Anyway I was telling the lady that answered what was wrong with the little guy and she put me on hold right away, as soon as she heard the word "prolapsed". When she came back she told me the Dr. said that it could be parasites that caused it or a few other things. At that point I stopped her and told her no that he was breeding, and told her about the emergency visit that I already had, she repeated it to the Dr., he stopped her and took the phone right out of her hand. Anyway the Dr. talked to me about what he would like to do to save his little wiener. He's in surgery all day but is planning on squeezing him in between each surgery, to work on him and check on progress. I've very please with this vet. He's one of those vets that you can see the passion he has about his specialty. He told me to bring him in and just to tell them at the front desk that he said it was ok. They went back and asked if he wanted to talk to me about my little guy. He stopped what he was doing and came right out. He took a look at my little guy and said the prognosis is good, no dead flesh and he should not have to amputate.

Mean while my husband, the non reptile person, is telling me, "Oh, he's just horny, it'll go down." LOL So I've been try to explain to him all morning how serious it could be.

Well, that's enough of me gabbing.

I'm off to take a nap!
 
I had a male blizzard prolapse on me last year and unfortunatly I did'nt catch it on time. I had to have them amputate it :bolt01: . I'll be keeping a closer eye on him this breeding season ( if I pair him at all). Hope all goes for the best in your situation and keep us updated.
 
how common is this? and what exactly was amputated shawn?

In case anyone noticed I've never dealt with this stuff before.
 
Tonya,

A geckos penis is split in two and those to halves are called Hemipenes, in Shawn's little guys case they could not save one of the hemipenes, and it had to be removed. A gecko can still produce if one is removed.

It's not all that uncommon, but not an every day occurrence either. Sometimes it can correct itself, sometimes it needs help and other times there's nothing you can do but amputate. If the hemipenes starts to dry it can cause pain, discomfort, infection, and even death.

Since this was the first time I had ever had to deal with this, I didn't want to take any chances. This was an issue that I had read about when I first started and read up a lot after I found out that it could be deadly. Also so you know a female can be prolapsed too, it's just a little different, and just as serious if not more.
 
Males have two hemipenis ( buldges on either side of the vent ) used for reproduction. So now my male is down to one :bawling: , but still has his back-up to do the job. I have only had this happen to me once and hopefully never again. As far as what causes them to not retract I'm not sure( maybe it's just not ready to :smash: ).
 
Small update...

The Dr. called about 10am to let me know that the hemipenes is bruised up pretty bad but the tissue still looks pretty good considering. He wanted to make sure that I was able to confirm that the hemipenes was infact back inside when I left the emergency room, and in the correct place. I told him yes, I saw nothing outside when I got him home in his tub, and there were two bulges. He also in formed me that he did poop for him, and it was very nice looking. :) Current plan, get swelling down, knock him out, put back in and put a few stitches in.
 
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