Hi guys.
Don't worry, the dormouse wasn't dying or having breathing problems.
It was 'in torpor', a deep hibernation.
The dormouse had just been taken from a Trust nestbox to be weighed and sexed by one of our mammal experts, who has a licence to handle dormice.
The dormouse was indeed snoring, but the footage is quite old and the camera did not have any microphone.
Thanks for all the comments
aAaaAAwww of the day
aAaaAAwww of the day
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: aAaaAAwww of the day
A-dorable! 

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: aAaaAAwww of the day
I want one!!!!!!!!!!!
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan