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A hibernating hazel dormouse is blissfully unknowingly that it has been discovered and rehomed after a gardener incidentally raked the nest out from underneath a sidestep nearby Leatherhead, Surrey.

David Williams, from Surrey Wildlife Trust, pronounced it competence have died of cold and would not have been means to find food. When it comes turn we will have certain it has got food and it is great to go.

The little animal can usually be hold for usually a couple of seconds since the carers warming hold would arise it prematurely.

Simon Cowell, owner of Wildlife Aid, said: We wish it to come out of hibernation at the own gait and are now monitoring it from a distance. When it comes turn we will have certain it has got food and is great to go.

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The hazel dormouse measures 6 to 9 centimetres (2.4 to 3.5 inches) in length and weighs seventeen to twenty grams (0.60 to 0.71 oz). This weight can stand in before to hibernation. It has golden-brown hair and large black eyes and is the usually dormouse local to the British Isles.

It is nightly and a stable species.

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