After a few hours, the principal came and disassembled the cabinet, where Thomas was waiting in a corner. Then he raised his head up and disappeared into a small hole.įear not: Thomas is now safe. He explored the classroom, moving along the floor next to the cabinet. "He has a little heater under it so he’s really warm."īolduc let Thomas stretch out. I’ll move it so you can see him. He likes to hide in this little box," she said, pointing to the top of a cardboard box. "So now I have lots of books and a giant plank that goes on top of his cage. "We have to have really heavy stuff on top because of the whole getting out situation," Bolduc said. “He’s scared of loud noises and he goes in his tiny box and he only gets out when it’s quiet," she said.Īt the elementary school, a few days after his first escape, Thomas was back in his aquarium-like box next to the teacher’s desk. But she’s observed how Thomas behaves in different situations, and it turns out that he gets scared of things, too. Kenya Davis also saw a pet snake in class a couple years ago. When asked what a snake sounds like, Johnson said, "Like a slithery little snake.” Like how can they slither around the floor and stuff without no legs? And they just have a long tongue with a triangle shape in the middle. Unlike some of the others, Johnson has no reservations about having Thomas in the classroom. "I think it had a rattle – probably a rattlesnake." "It was like a white snake with white eyes," she said. While these elongated reptiles are new to some students, Carmen Johnson saw a snake in class a couple years ago. And he’s pretty much a nice snake that likes to randomly, at random times, climb - slither not climb they don’t have arms or legs - onto his box, his little log,” Timmerman said. “All I so far know is that he’s de-fanged. Her classmate, John Henry Timmerman is still learning about the python. Ross: Do you feel differently about snakes now?Ĭlouse: "Not really. It didn’t take Clouse long to get used to Thomas, but she’s still not a snake fan. So then I’m like, ‘I want to touch him now!’ But I don’t think you’re really supposed to.” "Then the teacher started talking about him, how he’s like a python and he’s not poisonous. “At first I was like scared of Thomas, ‘cause I don’t like snakes," she said. Having a snake in the classroom is a new experience for many of the students. “Thomas had just nudged his way out of the cage, slithered all the way across my classroom and then ended up in my supply cabinet with all my sharpies,” she said. So he had escaped.”Īfter hours of searching, Thomas was found in a box of markers. "He’s in a giant cage with a lid that has books on top of it. “I couldn’t really believe what was going on, because how is that even possible?" she said. “Usually in the morning when I come in I just bend down and look in his cage and I say, ‘Hi Thomas,’” she said.īut when Bolduc checked on Thomas on the first day of school, he wasn’t there. It’s Bolduc's first year at the school district, and she was happy to take care of Thomas. But yeah, he’s really sweet and I was just really excited to get to learn about this snake.” "Nick refers to him as ‘low key’ because he doesn’t need a lot of maintenance. “He’s probably a four or five foot ball python," said Haley Bolduc, the fifth grade teacher. It all started when Dillingham Elementary School’s principal Nick Tweet sent an email to staff asking if anyone would be willing to adopt a few classroom pets, including a snake named Thomas.
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