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:
Did You Know™ that the dormouse sleep three quarters of the year in a nest? (That’s insta-dorabuhls). They weigh 15 to 30 grams, and they’re English, so you know when they talk, it’s absolutely charming.
First still image by Terry Whitaker, Dormice photographer extraordinaire. Second photo from Smart Images UK.
Nurse, get that little guy a C-PAP machine – STAT!
That’s what I was thinking!
Me too! He must have a serious case of sleep apnea!
Me four! teeny tiny cpap. *giggles*
Make that an extra, extra, extra SMALL, CPAP machine, Nurse!
They’re not so bad (CPAPs, not dormice)–I used one my own self for over five years. Losing 1/3 of my body weight in 2010 made it no longer necessary. (Actually, after losing just 20 pounds, I was sleeping much better.) But they are absolutely life-savers for folks with OSA.
*gently rolls the little sleepy one over onto his/her side to help ease the breathing, then covers with a little blanket and turns out the light*
Awwwwww! The thought of that made me smile.
Ditto!!
Perhaps just some Breath Right strips will help!
Oh my goodness! Such a loud snore for such a teeny dormouse! Ha.
The first thing I thought was “Are we sure that’s a snore, hmmm? ”
Hi Theresa!
Hi Nikki!
This reminds me of a scene outta Men in Black II. Sounds like he’s rapping:
The snoring part is fake. In the original video you can’t hear the snoring, which was described as a really high-pitched whistling.
So little dormouse, so much snoring.
OH MY GOSH!!! Do you think they make teeny breathe right strips for dormice?
*blink… blink” Teeneh tineh doormousie…wearing minuscule breathe right strip… *passes out onto keyboard*
Oh Em Geeee. I can’t believe what I’m seeing.
or hearing.
The original video is silent – the snoring part was added
You know, I was wondering– cause I saw this before but didn’t hear anything. I wonder if the 1st time I saw it the video was just messed up. I want to believe in the snores!!
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder where you’re at
Up above the world so high
Like a tea tray in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder where you’re at
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
I love that part of the tea party.
OHDEARGODITSATEENYSNORINGMOUSE.
I actually put my head in my hands in disbelief.
What the dormouse said: (snrrrfgh rrrghthgh sgarrghghglff)
Feed your head….(me thinks this little guy just might have!)
They like tea parties.
As long as they can sleep right in the teapot.
ohhhhhhh! i’m in <3 wiv teh leetle thing!! now we need a teacup to put it in
I’m all OMG! He’ll have apneas all winter long…
Edible dormice are actually not native to the UK. The Romans brought them. (And the fact that they’re called edible is why the Romans brought them.)
This is a UK native Doormouse, the edible type which live in the area of Buckinghamshire were I was born are greyer and have a bushy tail.
Doc, I twink I’m having a problem sleeping, I keep waking up with difficulty breathing maybe 4, 5, times a winter. My nest mate says I snore something terrible….could that be it?
Welsh Dormice had to have a special bridge built.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11087137
The bridge is LITERALLY RIGHT NEAR WHERE I LIVE OMG111!!!1ONE! and I for one support cuteness-enabling architecture. Funny to think these fuzzy little spheres of awesome are so close, but you *neeeeeeeeeeeever* see them. (Dormice have elite hiding skills. I suspect it comes of not moving around very much…)
Do they actually use the bridge, Loris? Are there teeny tiny dormouse-sized signposts to it?
This was on CO a couple of years ago . . .
As long it is not the Bridge of Death across the Gorge of eternal Peril….what is a dormouse’s favorite color, anyway?
“Green, no!! BLUE — no — AUGH!!!!”
*plop/ splash*
Just avoid falling into the Bog of Eternal Stench.
*pinches nose closed*
Snoremouse
What Oakley said
I’m sure you’re not supposed to move hibernating animals…..
Exactly, it is adorable, but it hibernates when food is scarce. By rousing it or holding it in your hand and raising its temperature, might inadvertently cause it to wake up. And if it does, it takes up a lot of its fat reserves which may not be enough for the rest of the cold season, and its likely to just never wake up.
kinda sounded like teddy the porcupine
As a member of the national Committee for the Promotion of Latin, I’d like to entertain everyone with the following factoids: The word “dormouse” comes from the Latin verb “dormire = to sleep” and the ancient Romans raised them in terra cotta Habitrails to supply the upper classes with such delicacies as stuffed dormouse! The more you know…
I am entertained.
My job here is done
Just remember people , if you are invited to a Roman style party , DO NOT EAT THE APPETIZERS WHATEVER YOU DO !!!!
Moderation lounge… what’s for breakfast?!
FRUIT!!!!
http://www.makingthebest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/bowl-of-fruit.jpg
And a lovely Mediterranean egg white panini
Ooh, don’t mind if I do!
Who r u calling a fruit ?
Tha fruits in tha blue line item I posted at 6:37 am on Jan 26th
Okay, Firdie , My error and I admit it !!! SORRY !
I say! honk-shu, good sir, pip pip!
(imagining wee top hat and monocle)
also! curled up little feetsies!
Also also.
I LURVE the hoovertext for pic # 3.
The End.
ITA!
Soft Dormouse, warm dormouse
Little ball of fur
Happy dormouse, Sleepy Dormouse
Snore, snore, snore.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Gigi [and, by extension, Dr. Sheldon Cooper]
WINS THA internet, fur tuday.
Signed,
*Knock knock knock*
“Penny” (x three)
FTW, Gigi and FB!
Signed,
Big Bang Theory Uber-Fan
ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sing soft doormouse again! This time, in a round!!!
*standing ovation*
Can you imagine what a nest full of snoring doormice would sound like?? OMG…..just too adorable
okay, peeps, busy day.
everyone fan out and pick a beelyon of webpages
everywhere you see the cliche’, “quiet as a dormouse,” you know what to do
What do we do?
Shake your groove thang, shake your groove thang!
*hitting self on head* Of course! *shakes groove thang*
Gee I always blamed my little hubby for keeping me awake all night with the snoring.
Obviously I must have a whole village of dormice sleeping in the wall near the bed.
I’m thinking that that honk-shuuing isn’t nearly as adorable if you’re Mrs. Doormouse sleeping right next to it…just sayin’
Check out the front paw action! They wiggle with every honk-shu!
Audioshopped?
It’s like looking in the mirror. The snoring and sleeping I mean. Winter is made for naps, cozy reading in bed and general cocooning.
*looks at palm, no dormouse there, has a sad, then watches video again & has happy!
There’s more than one rodent bridge around:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Narrows_Bridge
http://armchairtravelogue.blogspot.com/2009/08/worlds-narrowest-bridge-nutty-narrows.html
I’m thinking a truly hibernating rodent doesn’t breathe that rapidly. Much less snore.
Got to say it, got to say it . . .
a-DOR-able!
Had to say it!
y’know, even when all the best things i can think of have already been said, i just love being surrounded by so many like-minded peeps…
Also also (also?) we needz a “Sleppy” Tag, ovah hyah!!!
I’m small. I’m sleepin’. Ssssshhhhhh!
Captain and Official Spokescritter of the Olympic Sleeping Team.
When Alice left the Tea Party, she turned around for one last look:
The Mad Hatter and the March Hare were trying to stuff the fast-asleep Dormouse into the teapot……!!!
Heck, don’t doubt my word: I was there……; (they needed a waiter for the party;
the last one had quit unexpectedly; so they deemed that a passing Cheshire-Cat {me} was suitable as a last-minute substitute for table help….!)
The video took me to the edge then …. scroll… scroll… the pics threw me over!! So great!
NOOOOOOOO!!!! I found this on Wiki:
Relationship with humans
The edible dormouse was considered a delicacy in ancient Rome, either as a savoury appetizer or as a dessert (dipped in honey and poppy seeds). The Romans had a special kind of enclosure known as glirarium used to rear dormice for the table.[1] Dormice to this day are eaten in Slovenia.[2] Dormouse fat was used by the Elizabethans to induce sleep.[3]
Well, as horrifying as that is … I don’t see any difference between eating dormice and eating pigs or cows. All animals are too cute to eat in my book!
(Except of course for that cow in “Restaurant at the End of the Universe.”)
CPAP is a life-saver (literally–have your cardiologist make a referral for a sleep study).
I’m not an expert, but that seems like a pretty rapid respiration rate for a hibernating individual.
Privacy tail!!! That’s what slayed me — that even in deeeeep sleep the little mousie was maintining its modesty! How vedy English!
This reminds me of how my cat snores.
“Remembahhhhhhhhhhhh what the dormouse saiiiiiiiiid. Feed your heeeaaaaddd, feed your heeeaaddddddd!”
White Rabbit by Jefferson airplane/ starship !
Go ask Alice ,I think she’ll know !!
There once was a Dormouse who lived in a bed
Of delphiniums (blue) and geraniums (red).
Who knows this one?
I don’t know this one.
But melikes yer rhymin’, Simon
It’s not me, it’s A.A. Milne. But feel free to call me Simon any time.
This was on the news