My Ball Python

I have a pet ball python. We don't know what gender it is but we are calling it a girl. Her name is Gladiss. We keep her in a big glass cage. She has a log, a shelter, and some water in her cage.

Gladiss is brown with black spots all over. She almost looks like a cheetah. She is about two feet long and an inch thick right now. She is still a baby, though. I have heard they can get up to four feet long and very thick. I can't wait until Gladiss gets that big so I can put her on my neck.

Gladiss eats mice. My dad dangles the mouse so she thinks it's alive. She snaps at it and wraps around it. She stayed wrapped around it for like ten minutes, to make sure the mouse is dead. Then, she swallows the mouse. When she is done she looks really fat because that big mouse is in her stomach. How do snakes eat something so big whole?

I sometimes hold Gladiss. It is funny when I hold her because she tries to go somewhere that's dark and somewhere that she can hide in. Her skin feels weird when she slithers around on your arm.