Look what Togo found!

I had been wandering around the yard with the dogs, but headed inside to mess with some stuff. Upon going back outside, Jasper was waiting at the door to come in and Togo was lying just off the deck in the grass. I told Togo to come on up on the deck so I could put her in the house, and she ran away. This is the bad dog. So, I put Jasper in and then went back out to corral Togo.

I walk-chased her around the yard. She wandered through the weedy spot at the back of the yard and picked something up. At first it looked like old plant parts, but then, as I got closer to her, it looked more like a big dead bug. Lovely. I didn't really care what she had, I just wanted her to get up on the deck. She thought I wanted to take her precious away.

Finally, we had a showdown at the maple tree, where she ultimately dropped the thing and I grabbed her and walked her onto the deck and into the house. Here it is:

For those of you not in the know, that's a shed snake skin. Cool! I mean, we're near a wooded area, so it stands to reason that there are snakes around, but I never see any and it hadn't really crossed my mind.
 

There aren't much of the shed body scales left (the kinda circle spots), but judging by the ventral scales (the long, flat ones), this was not a small snake.
 

I hope I see an actual snake in my yard some day (preferably not in Togo's mouth).