Strange Animal Walking Through Yard???

[Raven]

yes they can look brown and not black

they have a range of colors

animals like that need a fluffy tail

as sort of a sleeping bag for sleeping

as it stores body heat...

kinda works like down feathers on geese

[BigFish]

Coat was patchy white, tan, brown.....fluffy.

[Raven]

that indicates tufts of fur and or shedding
and it helps with camouflage...

but white? thats very weird

unless it was a freak of Nature

albinism happens...

how long did the legs look...stubby and stout?

and what was the gait .... also ..like with
a fox they walk ... with a little bounce up and down
sort of like a trotting style...

where as a animal in the weasel group sways
or is doing the vertical snake motion

or ambulates quite differently...