Even the tiniest life is precious!

Rather, "especially - the tiniest»

Tiny baby garden dormouse, the length of just a few centimeters, completely naked and helpless was taken to the Wildlife Rescue Centre Folly Wildlife Rescue in Kent (UK).
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In the view of another blind child was about three weeks. He was found crawling on the ground right next to the border of the road on which the car moving briskly. Mother or lose it when you drag or a predator and stole the baby dropped, in any case, there were people who care, and picked up the crumbs.



The shelter gave Sonya Douglas nickname (it turned out to be male) and began to nurse him. Zvereshku placed in an incubator, fed every two hours from the pipette of milk, and then the dry grass-fed fruit mixture. Now Douglas is already overgrown with hair, he opened his eyes and rose to the length of 3, 5 inches (and when they found him he was in a length of 1 inch).



When Sonia a little older, it will transfer to another center, which will release next spring Douglas back into the wild. Garden dormouse in the UK once lived everywhere in abundance, but over the past 40 years, their number decreased by 70% due to the decrease in the number of hedges, in which they usually live and build their nests.



At last count the entire country there are only 45 thousand of these small, completely harmless and cute little animals that feed on fruit, berries and sometimes insects.



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