This is a serious question.

I walk the dogs every morning down our 1/4 mile driveway.

This morning just at the start of the walk saw a round ( 4 or 5 inch diameter) disc of pure black smooth viscous featureless “pudding “.

It looked exactly like a puddle of heated molten roofing tar.

I did the google thing and looked through multiple tutorials on ID’ing animal poop and didn’t find anything remotely close.

I have seen this several times before. My concern is it might be scat from a bear that has been gorging on apples or sum such.

Does anybody here know what animal could have done this?

Last edited by Dumdum; 09/03/21.