| And to tell the truth, it was not often he got a chance of petting his big brother's dormice. |
| There are no birds in Muteland, and the only beasts there are dormice and salamanders. |
| It's precious for wildlife too, sheltering dormice, water voles, bats, and innumerable birds including barn owls. |
| To this day, wild edible dormice are consumed in Slovenia, where they are considered a rare delicacy and dormouse trapping an ethnic tradition. |
| After a good autumn feed-up, snails, bats, butterflies, snakes, ladybirds, dormice and others find somewhere they hope will remain undisturbed and usually dry. |
| Foxes, rabbits, harvest mice, house mice, dormice, shrews, weasels, and voles all depend on the hedgerows as a place to breed, hunt or shelter. |
