Strange animals running through the streets - Hamburg

Last night when walking home from a friend's place at about 3 or 4 am I was startled by a rustling in the hedges - then saw what I initially thought were a couple of cats running from under a hedge underneath a car. However, in the couple of seconds I could see them I realised they weren't cats - they were the same size as the average moggy but looked more like a cross between a squirrel and a fox. Under the orange streetlights I couldn't really tell what colour they were meant to be, but they looked like a sorta tan/brown color, darkening towards the tip of the tail and legs. Anyone know what they might have been? I thought they could be Pine Martens or something like that, but I then I thought they lived in warmer climates and were a bir more stoatlike in shape...

Marders

Thank goodness for that, I thought it might have been Satan's imps out to punish me for my misdeeds.
Sounds like I might have been gnawed to death. (note to self: don't wear rubber Y fronts next time...)

I saw one of these last year but thought it was just a ferret escaped from my nachbar's trousers

He from Yorkshire then is he?

Would these be the creatures that I hear screeching in the middle of the night? Usually on warm summer nights - sounds almost like a crow caught up in a cat fight, but worse.

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I fear so - blood-curdling sounds. We had a bunch of them in our area last Summer.

Grrrrr!

Could also be the Cult of Eurovol

In Berlin this weekend I saw quite a few " 2 legged strange animals running through the streets".

Was it Love Parade weekend already?

Actually it was No Angels practising for their last spot...! (Sorry, second last spot!)

@ Lavender - That must have been after midnight when the husbands "proper" have arrived home again!