dead or hibernating?

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Been moving some hay and have found a field mouse curled up between two bales. They have been in situ for a good few months without being moved.

This mouse is motionless and I thought dead but someone suggested it may be hibernating.......it's not got rigor mortis....but how the hell do I tell??

Am working on the assumption it is dead but have a tiny seed of doubt now!!
 
Poke it with a stick! I didn't think mice hibernated anyway, not judging by the ones that used to plague my feed room all winter. If it was alive it would have scarpered quick.
 
If there's no rigor mortis & it stays that way, it ain't dead. Some mouse breeds do hibernate. Id just put it back in a similar sheltered place if i were u...just in case :)
 
Is it warm? If so then its hibernating - if its a little tubby one with a short tail then its prob a doormouse and they do hibernate - take a piccy (because I need to see the cuteness!!) and then pop in a warm little nook somewhere to sleep the winter out!!x
 
I rescued a baby dormouse from a a flood in the old stable we use for storage, released him a few days later when he had got his strength up and he is now sleeping soundly in the old tumbledrier at the back of the shed! :D
 
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