DS, Your post is almost the exact post I wrote a couple of months ago. The EXACT same thing happened to Lucy but it was her back toe that got caught. Have you taken her to see a vet? Please do so ASAP. Lucy's toe was actually dislocated instead of broken. Her toe was splinted and her whole foot up to her knee was bandaged for several weeks. Now her toe is completely healed and looks normal. If you don't have her checked out by her vet, the toes could grow back together wrong and be very uncomfortable and/or awkward for her (not to mention painful until then). As far as the cage is concerned, I used duct tape down the corners of the cage to prevent that from happening again. If your fuzzies are prone to chewing on duct tape, you will have to try something else. Sorry, don't have any other ideas right now. I felt it was sort of a freak accident because Lucy usually climbs down more towards the middle of the cage rather than at the corners, But now that the same thing as happened to your ferret, maybe it isn't such a freak accident afterall. Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions, but PLEASE take her to the vet! Barb, Lucy & Greta P.S. I think I have a Marshalls cage. "Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the old, sympathetic with the struggling, and tolerant of the weak and wrong...because sometime in your life you will have been all of these" [Posted in FML issue 2622]