(1) The garden dormouse is notorious for finding its way into vehicles.(2) It has several cousins on the continent, including the edible dormouse, the garden dormouse and the forest dormouse .(3) As I sat there, a dormouse scuttled right out from under my boots: I'd disturbed its lunch, and there was a clutter of precision-punctured hazelnut shells among the leaf litter.(4) A huge decline in the number of Britain's native mammals - such as the water vole and dormouse - has led to the launch of a new organisation which is seeking the support of animal - lovers to help to save our furry friends.(5) She gazed at the absence of light coming through the string-like curtains on the exterior wall like an anxious dormouse who's been too long in hibernation.(6) Ok, read me the story about the dormouse now.(7) That's all the prompting the matronly dormouse needed.(8) And come to think of it most of the victims I have seen being carried home as trophies by cats have been birds, dormice and voles.(9) After a good autumn feed-up, snails, bats, butterflies, snakes, ladybirds, dormice and others find somewhere they hope will remain undisturbed and usually dry.(10) Squirrels, badgers, dormice , and larger animals such as deer are greedy for it.(11) Invariably, the poor creature went off to hunt the small rodents that infested the forest floor: rabbits, dormice , and the like.(12) It's precious for wildlife too, sheltering dormice , water voles, bats, and innumerable birds including barn owls.(13) Suburban householders report large numbers of hedgehogs, voles, shrews, dormice and hares.(14) Foxes, rabbits, harvest mice, house mice, dormice , shrews, weasels, and voles all depend on the hedgerows as a place to breed, hunt or shelter.(15) The last grey hour between twilight and darkness came, when squirrels vanished into their nests, and birds dwindled into silence, while bats, dormice and fallow deer emerged from their daytime shelter.(16) In the fall of 1998, the trees were cut down while the dormice hibernated.
