Awwwwwwwwww! I don't think I have ever seen anything this cute before.

That is really cute Sallyanne, what is it and I have never seen whiskers like that before.

Looks like a mouse Molly. I think OMG or Graechan may be able to answer that one, or any other Aussies here.
Only name/picture I found that looked like it was a long tailed mouse.

I think the person holding it better get his fingers looked after, The one looked like it was bleeding all around the edges. It is cute and doesn't look like a mouse to me cuz they aren't cute to me.

Check this page out. It might be a pigmy possum. http://australian-animals.net/ I couldn't get a close up look at it.

Another page gave me this (http://animalworld.tumblr.com/post/4392 ... olrunnings)
SOUTHWESTERN PYGMY-POSSUM (Cercatetus concinnus) - ©Ray Dayman

The Southwestern Pygmy-possum is an Australian marsupial, commomly called the Western Possum or the Mundarda. It is a fawn-coloured creature no bigger than a kiwi fruit. Weighing an average of only 13 grams, this nocturnal marsupial has a short pointed snout, large forward directed eyes and big ears. It is thought to eat a diet of pollen, nectar, spiders and insects. Unlike its grey relatives, it is coloured a bright cinnamon colour. It is nocturnal.

I think you hit the nail in the head Sallyanne, that is it for sure. Soooo cute, I can't believe they can be that small and be seen.

These pictures definitely confirm it's a pygmy possum. In fact, your picture is among them, sallyanne.

http://tinyurl.com/kn8l5gh

I think this baby pygmy hedgehog ranks up there in cuteness with the pygmy possum.

Omd I think I'm in love.
so adorable. xD

He is adorable, Is he potty trained? I will adopt him if so.

sallyanne: wow, that really is most ridiculously cute! i want to cuddle it NOW! but... just a moment; wait now - exactly how do i know it doesn't want to kill me?! i mean, maybe it goes around all day toying with plans of murdering innocent swedish gimp chatters, it just lacks the physical possibilities of realising their plans?

erisian: watch it closely! is it really cuter than me? are you sure that's what you wanted to say?!

oregonian: oh dear! be careful what you post! erisian will be pestering me about getting a baby hedgehog now - he has an unfortunate thign for hedgehogs...

molly: i don't think the hedgehog mummys spend too much time potty training their little ones.

They are cute and so smaaal. *___*

But to be honest I think that (on average, obviously) a bite from a mammal is probably worse than one from a insect or arachnid. Don't trust the cuteness.

Drats, I guess I won't be getting one then, AnMal. My two cats would probably eat them anyway.

Is that a Australian sugar glider Sallyanne? They sell them as pets here and give them the moniker of pocket pet. They sell them at the mall around 3 or 4 times a year, especially during the Christmas season. Very expensive for a mouse looking creature. lolol

squeeeeeeeeee

Maybe so Graechan, but at around $500 a piece, they don't sell too many. Not sure how they got to sell them here in the US. I may also have been wrong since I went to the website just now and they call them sugar bears, but they look an awful lot a like and they are from the same area (Australia/New Guinea). Trust me; I really don't like the idea of these as pets either since they look so fragile to me and don't like seeing any animal caged (though have to admit, when I was a kid, I had pet gerbils. lol).

Anyway, found a non-commercial site about these little creatures:

http://asgv.org/

That hedgehog is definitely the cutest of all .... errrr .... except for AnMal of course!