Is this a weasel?

Steph14

Hi, I found this little guy down the side of a concrete block beside my back step hiding from my cat (he’s an indoor cat just comes out occasionally with me in the back). 

He was about 10-12cm long, brown coat and slinky looking. I’ve looked online I’m guessing he is a weasel? I moved the block slightly for him to get out and he went running away down the path and into a flower bed. Very cute, I’m in the city and have never seen one before. 

Fire

This is a weasel. Altogether more cunning and the teeth are sharper.

Busy-Lizzie

@Steph14 he must have been a young weasel as that is small even for a weasel, stoats are bigger. Did you happen to notice if he was brown all over with a shortish tail? A stoat has a longer tail with a black tip.

FlyDragon

I feel like you should have posted a warning @Fire

I was expecting cute animal pictures and I have to look at that?

Steph14

@Busy-Lizzie I didn’t see the tail very well so guessing it must have been short, he was very small and quick, Hope he will be okay if he’s just a baby.

i agree @fire your picture needs a warning! 

Fire

Apologies to all for the shock.

Suesyn

Could have been a ferret. I gather lots of people buy them as pets and then abandon them when they discover they bite! 

josusa47

Surely everyone knows how to identify these creatures:

a weasel's weaselly recognised; a stoat's stoatally different.

herbaceous

Any chance it might be a vole Steph14 if you didn't see the tail clearly?

Steph14

I don’t think it was a vole, I have seen one of them before and they are more mice like? This did have a longer body, I wish I’d managed to get a better picture or video. Possibly a ferret but very small.

Valley Gardener

? Mink maybe.