What's This Animal?

Let's see if the video insert works.

There's a better view of it as it crosses the street.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stu-b/54326395926/in/dateposted/

Mink?

Loads around, often released from fur farms by well-meaning animal rights groups who somewhat ignore the devastating effect they have on native wildlife.

Last time it was the milkman...was the animal carrying a bottle? 😂

Its quite hard to tell but i think it is just a cat. You do get short legged freak cats.

Mink and pinemarten are really sleek and whenever i have seen them ( pine marten are in the valley never actually seen a mink here) they move totally differently. 

If the video ever loads you'll be able to see it's not a cat.

Far too long and has a kind of sideways gate as it crosses the street.

Far too long and has a kind of sideways gate as it crosses the street.

Narrowcrab. 

Not a stoat or pine marten - both move very differently, stoat likely to be white at this time of year, doesn't look like either body profile/tail/gait in the still.

Cat slave for the last 40 odd years and all I see when I look at that video is a Cat. 

Not a stoat or weasel, one’s weasily recognised and the other is stoatally different. 

it's a cat, I've photographed all the other things, they dont move like that

I'd be inclined to say its a cat by the way it moves. The image is not very clear.

Other possibility is its someone's pet ferret that has escaped. Used to live near someone and frequently found their ferret in our garden.

100% cat. It's just distortion of the camera lens that's confusing you. Look how squashed the paving slab at the far end of the row is compared to the nearest ones.

Off subject but I see that it's still taking hours for posts to appear/not appear.

i was hopeful things would work a bit better today after my initial post showed up immediately but it seems not.

I can still only see my initial post from 06.27.

Catzilla.

How close are you to a waterway? My initial thought was "that's an otter" and rewatching has done nothing to dispel that

Am i watching a different video?

I was being polite earlier. Its a bloody cat. Its quite clearly a cat. Otters, mink, and pine martens are big enough but they are all really long and walk totally differently like the video could be worse and it would still be easy to say if it was one of those three.

Stoats and ferrets are much smaller.

Also consider... Its quite obviously a cat.

A shit badger?

Cat.

Unless greeting another cat or human their tail stays down.

I hate to be the odd one out here but I'm pretty certain that's a cat.

Honey Badger???????????

Fur baby my money's on. 

baby robin?

That is a cat! Often when out prowling they will slink along with body lower to ground just like that video shows. Happy to bet someone else's mortgage on that fact. 

Actually, watching it full screen - it's a cat

Yeah, lickle pussy cat. Got a fat, fluffy tail is why it looks weird.

Mustelids like stoats, minks and pine martens have a very distinct bounding gait - image looks like cat/ can’t see video. I have pine martens, minks and otters visit my garden/capture on video - absolutely no way you can confuse them with cats

Definitely a cat.

A fox?

A video of a cat that couldn't look more like a cat, move like a cat or be more cat sized, and yet people still suggest that it could be something other than a cat. It's no wonder that people claim to see UFOs!

A shit badger?

Is that like a chutney ferret but bigger?

It's a cat.

Yeah that’s just a cat. 

Has anyone pointed out it's a cat yet?

I'd say cat watching it on the big screen, the ringed tail makes me pretty confident, unless you live in North America then the aptly named BillOddie has it. 

Baby dinosaur?🦖 

Definitely a cat, no argument about that. I’ve not seen an otter in the wild yet, but I’ve seen enough footage to tell the difference, otters, and mink never hold their tails up like that, and I’ve watched a stoat dancing around down the far end of my archery club range, they’re a lot smaller than the one in the footage, and are much faster moving. Plus their tails are quite short and have an obvious black tip.

This thread has put a smile on my face, right when I needed it. Ta!

(p.s. It's a cat, pretending to be a pine marten. Shifty little things).

I'd say cat watching it on the big screen, the ringed tail makes me pretty confident, unless you live in North America then the aptly named BillOddie has it. 

That was my other thought but i have a rough idea where Singlespeedstu lives.

And it isnt 101 Dalmations dimension London

This thread has put a smile on my face, right when I needed it. Ta!

Glad It's cheered you up.

It was just a light hearted way of seeing if a video would actually post for me.

Though it could be an otter.

I only live about 100 meters away from the Tweed and there's loads of the f****rs in there. 😉 

Not an otter. For me it is a cat. 

I only live about 100 meters away from the Tweed and there's loads of the f****rs in there. 😉 

There really are. Doggo keeps finding their disgarted salmon heads and rolling on them.

There are also marten in Glentress atleast.

Evil sadistic bird killer. 100%.

Which abbreviation to C.A.T.

well i have looked at that a hundred times and zoomed in Spooks style with some software that my brother works on for MI6. I have also some excellent footage of a Pinemarten to compare the gait, plus a stuffed weasel and stoat in my local pub as a comparo.

In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, I am 100% certain that it's a Tabby.

Any more footage of the honey badger?

Far too long and has a kind of sideways gate as it crosses the street.

That is a perpendicular feline.

Capybara, with loo roll stuck in its trousers