Dormouse (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

The Dormouse
Alice character
The Hatter with the Dormouse asleep on the left. Illustration by John Tenniel.
First appearance	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Created by	Lewis Carroll
Information
Species	Dormouse
Gender	Male
Significant other(s)	The Hatter March Hare
Nationality	Wonderland

The Dormouse
Disney character
First appearance	Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Created by	Lewis Carroll
Voiced by	Jimmy MacDonald
Information
Species	Dormouse
Gender	Male
Occupation	Mad tea party entertainer
Nationality	Wonderland

The Dormouse is a character in "A Mad Tea-Party", Chapter VII from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

The Dormouse sat between the March Hare and the Hatter. They were using him, while he slept, as a cushion when Alice arrives at the start of the chapter.

The Dormouse is always falling asleep during the scene, waking up every so often, for example to say:

`You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, `that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'

He also tells a story about three young girls who live in a treacle well, live on treacle, and draw pictures of things beginning with M, such as mousetraps, memory and .

He later appears, equally sleepy, at the Knave of Hearts' trial and voices resentment at Alice for growing, and his last interaction with any character is his being "suppressed" (amongst other things) by the Queen for shouting out that tarts are made of treacle.

The character also appears in Disney's Alice in Wonderland. Like in the book, he is sleepy and lazy, but unlike in the book, he sings Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat instead of telling his story about mouse sisters to entertain the tea-party participants. He panics at the mention of the word "cat", much like The Mouse from the book, and needs to have jam spread on his nose in order to calm down. The Disney version of the character also appears in House of Mouse and Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse.