I can't quite get past this one. Part of me thinks it's just flat and two dimensional picture of a dead thing, and then I look again and it looks almost marble-like and just a bit too perfect to be just a dead thing and there's something so artistic about it.
It's the legs and the head that does it. The curl of the bottom foot, and the placement of the back foot.
I follow what you tried to do here - perhaps you pushed it too much and the head is too cartoonish. But the are are parts of this tapestry that are wonderful