Can you tell me what is this ?animal

[CatherineTheNotSoGreat]

I was out for a (yes local) wood walk with my DD about 5pm. On the path was this creature. I think it was alive as it seemed to move purposefully. It rolled, on and off, intermittently. V dark grey/black, slightly shiny. MyDD was totally freaked and in fairness it was a bit creepy, so we turned back. But now I’m wondering was it a) in trouble and unwell or b) an exotic pet or something that some authority should know about.

Anyone know, and what should I do, if anything.

Initially I thought it was a bag. But its movements were distinctly serious.

Maybe you’re right, maybe it was nothing.

@TaxFool

However I will go tomorrow ASAP with the H and see if it’s still there and report back. It was creepy, I’m telling you. Cat sized beetle. I know it.

Well then I support the rat in a poo bag theory, if it wasn't just a bag!!

Cat sized stag beetle. It may seek you out tonight.

This reminds me of the “injured leopard” spotted in the road - somewhere very unexotic like Sheffield, if memory serves me right! A brave driver turned round and went back to help only to find it was an animal print onesie

I was just looking at the picture and my 12 yo asked why I was looking at a photo of a carrier bag. My cat likes playing in bags. Maybe that was it. You should have let the cat of the bag.

Did it have any discernable limbs when moving?

If not, then yes it have been a rat/rats in a bin bag. When I was in Bangkok, the bin bags would literally come to life in the evenings, it was really gross.

It better NOT be a beetle!

Love the "leopard" in the road 😂

Please go back tomorrow and update!
It maybe my only bit of excitement for the day

Oh I so would’ve stopped for the leopard in the road!
If it’s not a rat then it’s zombie dog poo.

@OhMsBeliever

No, no limbs. Prob like the leopard coat. The creepy thing was the movements. Oh now I think maybe it was a bag of kittens or other cuteness. See? Now my mind is running on overtime. Well at least I’m letting go of it seeking me out tonight. Well I WAS, until I remembered it

That's a Badger Slug.

Oh god. I hope it wasn't a bag of kittens now you really MUST go back and check!

What’s a badger slug?

You’re joking me, aren’t you?

I don't know but I want to!! Could it have been a small deer thing with antlers??

I will go back. Hopefully not kittens. That would be pretty horrific.

Don’t think it was a deer, or Bambi or anything.

I'm also worried about kittens in a bag. Dumped because they can't sell them in lockdown

It’s a bag - but it could have had some poor little creature trapped in it 😕

The injured leopard reminded me of the ‘cat with no pulse’ 🤣

Black bag imo. Mowd in the wind or full of dkittens.
I would go back and look tomorrow op..

DD found two kittens in a black bag. Freaked her out when the bag started moving then she heard a faint mewing. That was in a car park.
Hope that’s not what you saw.
Both kittens survived and were found homes.

Sorry crossed post.

I’ll be back tomorrow. I suppose the likeliest was something in a bag. Someone might have picked it up after us tho there wasn’t that many out. I’ll go back in the morning.

DH says bat. Head on the right hand side. If it is, it's a big bat!