Dorkis the Snake

I am going to talk about my second favorite animal in the world, my pet snake Dorkis. He is a Pastel ball python and there are only a thousand like him in the world. The reason why we named him Dorkis is my step dad (Daniel)’s old teacher was a herpetologist and his last name was Dorkis. But we also call him Cookie like Cookie Monster because he has a Cookie Monster face in his pattern.

He was born approximately a month and a half ago. He was about a foot and a half when we bought him from a guy who breeds them. He is now two feet long, but he is nowhere near what is going to get. The guy we got him from said is is going to get about five to six feet long.

Lately Dorkis has been acting weird for example he hissed at my mom and tried to bite my sister. But this morning we found a snake skin in his tank and know we know that why he was acting out like he was.

But before we were all responsible snake owners. On the second day we had him me and my mom decided to take him out of his tank. We started to play with him on the recliner couch so he could have more room to roam around. He fell right into the arm of the couch and we could not get him out. So we called Daniel at work and he came home but by the time we could call him back to say we got him Daniel pulled into the driveway. It took four hours to get him out of the couch. We even put a heating pad to fish him out, we finally found him wrapped around a cord in couch.