If it's been a handled ferret, possibly someone with half a brain will notice that, before it's put down. Though if anyone ever needed a good reason to always use a locator, then this is it. Possibly this is one of the better fates that awaits lost ferrets. I'm sure that away from the camera's gaze, on programmes like this, there'll be people like you or Kay, people who care, it might still make it. Ps. In the bad old days when ferrets were fed on bread and milk, I tried mine on pedigree chum, "bear in mind if you couldn't get fresh food, there was nothing else available, no dried or day old