Dormouse snoring (cute)

[pokerfan]

Tiny Dormouse Snores
January 25, 2012 By Meg

The fine folks over at Boing Boing have reminded moi that the ever-snoozing and ever-prosh dormouse is hibernatin’ and therefore snoring up a storm these days. Will you please check out this redonk snoring action:

[Solly Mack]

1. Oh! Too adorable! I can't take it.

Let me go watch again.

[denbot]

2. Wow, that is a cute little critter..

Bonus is that I now know what a dormouse is...

[zanana1]

3. It sounds like he's having a hard time breathing. nt

[pokerfan]

5. made it to io9

Always fun to watch these things drift from blog to blog...

What you're seeing here is a hibernating dormouse filmed by Dave Williams of the Surrey Wildlife Trust Mammal Project. Despite his log-sawing, this slumbering little guy isn't in any trouble — he's just an unusually stentorian sleeper.

Dormice can hibernate for up to one-third of their lives. They wake up in the springtime (minus one-quarter of their fatty body mass) to mate. In addition to monitoring the sleeping dormouse population, the Surrey Wildlife Trust builds miniature hourly motels for the rodents:

http://io9.com/5879556/snoring-dormouse-is-so-adorable-your-head-will-explode

[siligut]

9. Good to know

We can appreciate all that sweetness without concern.

[Jankyn]

6. Poor little guy sounds like he needs a CPAP machine...

...or at least a Breathe-rite strip!

[Raven]

7. That's how my dog, Shelta,sleeps, except

she also lets out little yips and yaps.

[OnyxCollie]

8. Ohmigoodness!

That is the cutest thing.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Awwwwwww! They don't come cuter than this!!!

Thanks for sharing...