Bailey's Limping

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I've just got home to find that Bailey is limping and not putting any weight on her back right paw. I thought a couple of days ago that something seemed not quite right with her gait, but she was zooming around in her wheel, so I figured it must just be my imagination. I'm now thinking she'd maybe hurt herself slightly, then has had another fall today and made it worse.

I've ended up getting her registered at the vet's in P@H in my home town, which is about half an hour outside Edinburgh, cause the one on Bread Street and the one that the P@H we got her from use were both already closed. I know the vet who was in the one she's going to several years ago was pretty good with hamsters, I used to take mine there - fingers crossed it's either still the same vet or someone else who's hamster knowledgeable. They're seeing her tomorrow morning.

Really praying that it's not broken. She seemed to loosen up a little as she was climbing over me while hubby put more sawdust into her cage for cushioning, since we can't stop her climbing her bars. She seems to be keeping her weight off it by choice, rather than it being unable to bear weight at all. I've also taken out her wheel.

We don't have a hamster travel cage yet - it's on my list of things to get but we weren't expecting to need one so soon, we haven't even had her a week yet. Will she be okay in a cardboard box with some bedding, air holes and cucumber?