{"id":394841,"date":"2026-01-28T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394841\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:43:08","slug":"tiny-vulnerable-dormouse-rescued-from-lawn-in-bexhill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394841\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny &#8216;vulnerable&#8217; dormouse rescued from lawn in Bexhill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A tiny hazel dormouse has been rescued after being found &#8220;immobile and vulnerable&#8221; on a lawn in Sussex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">East Sussex Wildlife Rescue &amp; Ambulance Service (WRAS) said they believed the dormouse was accidentally disturbed while hibernating and then dropped in Bexhill, leaving him at &#8220;serious risk from the cold, dehydration, and predators&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hazel dormice are a protected species in the UK and are rarely seen by the public as they are nocturnal and spend much of their lives hidden in hedgerows, woodland, and scrub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This little one was very lucky to be found when he was,&#8221; said WRAS founder Trevor Weeks, who is helping to care for the small creature at the WRAS Casualty Centre. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tiny hazel dormouse has been rescued after being found &#8220;immobile and vulnerable&#8221; on a lawn in Sussex.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-394841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}