Symptoms to watch for?

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I accidentally stepped on (not completely thankfully) my boy Theo. He immediately darted underneath his cage and was scared. I moved his cage and examined him. He was shivering because he was scared, but wasn't showing any signs of pain.  His next bowel movement was normal, no blood in stool or urine. Hes up and about, not as much as normal, but he doesnt seem to be in any pain. His gums arent pale, no labored breathing. Hes currently eating some food, and is acting normal. I called an emergency vet in our area and they said that he sounds fine, maybe just a little sore/scared and to keep an eye out for blood or labored breathing and pale gums.  What signs should i watch out for? Just looking for some info to put my mind at ease. I wish ferrets could talk 

[unclejoe]

All you can do is watch him. If he walks normally and eats and drinks he should be ok. It's happened here a few time, and that's the main reason we don't wear shoes in the house.

[LindaM]

I second Unclejoe. Our home is also shoe-free, the house rule is that shoes get taken off when you come into the house and placed on an elevated surface, and put on right before going out the door. This serves to keep the shoes out of harm's way from being eaten, and also the ferret out of harm's way from risking a blockage from chewing the shoe, or getting stepped on with the shoe.

Of course, this doesn't mean you can't step on one of them barefooted and not do any damage. Therefore we try and be as diligent as we can when walking around in the house, especially since our ferrets are free-roam. And considering there are four of the little buggers in our home, some days I feel all I do is trip over ferrets.. and not even because of myself either. This morning Ares (our warmonger), ended up grabbing my leg and tripping me on purpose, enough to make me nudge Loki over with a few toes, which then started exactly what Ares desired... a human-vs-ferrets spazztastic wrestling war. But we still walk around with caution, and often if we see one is up and about, my husband and I will let each other know about it, or if we see one of them in the other's blind spot, we will warn each other.

Anybody visiting our home has to follow the shoe rule, as well as needing to watch where they step and walk with caution, there's absolutely no running around at all (unless playfully with the ferrets, but still done with caution). But accidents do happen sometimes, and the best you can do then is to make sure your fuzzy is okay, especially if you fear you stepped or nudged a wee bit hard. Whenever one of mine accidentally got toed a bit hard with a foot, or even just shifted out of the way as they ran into a foot, they get scooped up, checked over for injuries, apologized to, kissed and snuggled and given a treat before being allowed to wander off on their merry way again.