You werent to blame. Even if you think you have every single thing that can cause a ferret accident covered, you dont, it is why I use my signature. My King Tut when he was about 1 year old broke the thigh bone on his right hind leg. cost over $300 for the specialty vet to set it and pin it, he showed me the wire they used to pin it with for those little bones, it was very tiny. The vet said it was hard to break that bone, but Tutt did it anyway, and the only thing I could figure that even made sense was that he jumped off his cage (he loved to climb on it and jump off, it was a 4 story job) and had to have landed wrong or got his leg stuck in one of the cage wires as he jumped, he couldnt tell me so I never figured it out, but there is no absolutely safe place for a very curious and active critter like our babies, we just do the best we can to protect them. Vicky "Ferret-Proof isn't" [Posted in FML issue 4234]