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Choosing The Right Rabbit For You

By: Kate Riding Home | Home-and-Family | Pets


Rabbits, as you would expect come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes from all corners of the globe. While each rabbit has it's own personality, just the same as humans, each breed does have general traits and each sex of rabbit within each breed has it's own uniqueness, again the same as us humans.

Just to clarify, a lop eared rabbit has ears which droop instead of sticking upwars in the usual position, gently vibrating as they intently listen to the sounds carried by the air.

Rabbits can be broken into two main categories, large and small and are summarized as follows:

Netherland Dwarf - a very small breed of rabbit and often called a Jumping Rabbit due to it's frisky nature. These rabbits usually weigh in around 1kg and come in all the usual colors. The Netherland dwarf has upright ears and is one of the most common domesticated rabbits to see in the home.

The Lion Head - this is an exotic rabbit in that they have a 3 inch mane around their faces while the rest of the coat is trim and short. Regular brushing of this main is essential in order to keep your Lion Head rabbit happy.

Dutch Rabbit - often called the Double Bunny, the Dutch can come in two main types, lop eared or standard. Weighing in at around 2kg these rabbits are one of the largest domesticated breed of rabbit and are very popular with a long life span.

Angora Rabbits - affectionately termed Roto Rabbit due to there owl like ability to rotate their head right the way round are a more expensive breed of rabbit to keep. Reknown for their long fluffy coat these pearlescent rabbits need regular grooming and if not looked after correctly can end up looking like a ball of
fluff!

It's worth noting that by their nature, all rabbits are jumping rabbits and as such need plenty of excercise. Simply being couped up in a small hutch is no life for a rabbit and you must ensure safe and adequate space for the rabbits to run and jump and regularly clean it's living area.



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