At the end of the day they have no rights like the police do, they make me sick , just go & tell them you lost your ferret & see if they have it , bare in mind it may not actually be the the rspca centre place very often the aco (neighbour) may well have dropped it off at a recsue place , now i know someone on here who had a ferret go missing , it was missing less than 24 hours & when he found it the next day it had been castrated by said rescue
But what they didnt know was the ferret was vasectomised , so dont hang about because they will have there bits off regardless of