Two toys worked well for me in the ferrets cage. The first was a stuffed baby rattle. It's a stuffed piglet, acutally, from Winnie the Pooh. It's for a baby, so it didn't have any dangerous stuff glued on it, and the ferrets went crazy when they heard the rattling noise. The other thing I did was buy one of those springy cat toys- the butterfly at the end of a elastic rope, etc. I hung it from the top of the cage and then amused myself watching them try to hide it in their blankets. I don't know if you have the space, or the inclination, but the other thing my boyfriend and I did was to buy irrigation tubing and make a maze around the cage. We then cut two holes into the cage, and put the ends in. They love to tunnel through, and it makes me feel less guilty when we can't let them out for a while. We freaked out when we looked in one day and saw a ferret missing, and it turned out she was sleeping in the bottom corner of the tubing! Have fun! Ariel, Jasper, Taz and Bit [Posted in FML issue 2302]