Many yrs ago me and my step brother were ferreting a large warren in a steep bank.
This was way before locators.
Anyway, we managed to get a decent haul and were thinking about stopping, when we thought we'd have one last slip of the ferret.
We entered the ferrets and waited a while, when out pops our ferrets and an extra one.
She was very skinny, but tame.
We took her home and later found out she was thel local keepers.
He had lost her a couple of weeks earlier and spent an age trying to get her back. He was very pleased to see her and praised us no end, in fact he offered us a cocker