What do we have here

I thought it was a copperhead at first from my daughters description but after seeing the pic, what is it?

Dead hopefully.

Not a copperhead.

best kind of snake is a dead one

I'm not sure but I catch them all the time though, they don't seem any more harmful than a regular garter snake, they are probably a certain kind of garter. They are almost always about 10-12 inches long.

Looks like a common brown snake.

Where's Snakewrangler when you need him?

Looks like it could be the common serpens advocatus.

It's a garter snake, where was the pic taken and I will tell you more.

Garter snake.....good one....

It's a garter snake, where was the pic taken and I will tell you more.

It's a Texas brown snake AKA Dekay's snake.

Looked up a photo and that looks to be right.

I've been studying herpetolgy for 30 years. Imagine what I would know if I had Google back in the day.

Very common in Texas, we always called them a garden snakes as a generic term. Only snake I kill on sight is a Copperhead, even a rattler will get "relocated". Don't have cottonmouth where I am, so those would get the blade as well.

TRDM, I think they now have a shot for folks with herpatology

It was in my daughters backyard. They raked leaves the week before and were bagging them this weekend. she said it was about a foot long. Thanks guys!

TRDM is correct, feisty little things too. Make for great pranks at the fire station when you lay one on the table during dinner.

its alive, and that's the issue.