Can you please help me work out what animal I just saw

[YellowJellyfish]

In the UK driving down the narrow country roads when this animal ran/waddled across the road.

It was bigger than a cat, smaller than a badger, slower than a fox.

It kind of waddled, was quite round and had no tail.

I really can't think what kind of mammal it was.

Any ideas?

wheresmymojo

OMG how cute! In my head meerkats and prairie dogs are very similar, but this pic shows their differences rather well.

OP this thread is making me lol so hard 😂

OP

If you look at the second picture, was it like that?

www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/12/wild-boar-gloucester-city-centre

Capybara are much bigger than prairie dogs

Noooo my excitement is vanishing! As PPs have mentioned think it was too small to be a capybara.

Def not a wild boar. I'm scared of those buggers.

Until I read that article, I didn’t know they could disembowel people

Size can be misleading because it could be a juvenile, which is also more likely to stray and have risky behaviour.

That’s how big capybaras are btw...

Blimey, that capybara would yell STAND AND DELIVER and then carjack you.

Maybe you saw a baby boar, OP.

Omg they're huge!!

But that picture ......

So many questions!!!

The birthday cake on her breasts, the shirt with the whales on it!!!

What is going on there!!!

I'm afraid it's looking to me like a massive rat. A happy rat

Happy, tailless rat with no eyes!

Wonder what it means, I drew a smiley face but no eyes .....

OP “ Wonder what it means, I drew a smiley face but no eyes .....”

You’re writing a horror film?

I don't know if you have them over there (I'm in the US) but could it be a groundhog/woodchuck or some other type of marmot?

No we don't have them over here, but I do know how much wood a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood!

Tanuki? I kind of love Tanuki when they have a fluffy winter coat. Here’s my picture

I know they aren’t native to the UK, but...

www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-48451094

They are normally harmless

He cute!

Mink or otter?

Had you been drinking, OP, either when you saw it or before you did the diagram?!

To me, it looks like a giant tick, Percy Pig, or one of the Mr Men.

Where we are I see a lot of critters crossing the roads, or sadly having failed to safely cross the roads, but I've yet to see one of those three. I'll look more carefully from now on.

I've seen a muntjac deer on my travels, they are really quite majestic and beautiful, nothing like your diagram op, which, may I add, is extreamly delightful.

From the diagram... Definitely a Haggis.

Weasel?

Was it a vole? Like a water vole? Or a mole? Or too small for what you saw.

Having a huge laugh a wombats in the UK!! (And from a friend’s experience, they do huge damage to a car) and I would laugh at wallaby’s roaming UK but you occasionally hear of them being kept as pets outside of Australia and they are prone to escape.

I’d love to see a Capybara though.