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Strange rabbit breeds

Denny

Mama Doe
Just had a look at the local bargain pages and this week we have for sale Tiger head rabbits:lol::lol::lol: is this a new breed:lol::lol: are lionheads now extinct:lol::lol:

Anyone else had people tell them an unusal breed of rabbit?:lol::lol:
 
German agnora
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Astrex
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Pearlfre
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And my favorite Rare rabbit (its a cross of a English Lop so its my favorite by defualt)...
Velveteen Lop
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A Netherland Dutch and also a Harlequin which was apparently a Dutch because the pet shop said so :roll:
 
Those breeds Agutilover showed are of real-life rabbits though, but as a Norwegian so-called rabbit-expert I can assure you there is no such thing as a Norwegian Dwarf:roll: I only know of one breed that is certainly 100% Norwegian and that is definitely not a dwarf! :lol: (It's a large breed, bred for meat... Its called the Trønder and I'm not sure if its recognized outside Scandinavia...)

I keep hearing about Indian Lop Dwarves though....I have no idea what that is but I think I heard somewhere they're really lionlops, the name showed up just before the Lionlop became a recongized breed in Norway.

How exactly do those "tiger heads" look like? Rabbits without a mane? :lol: (Which could pretty much mean ANY rabbit apart from lionheads and lionlops)

I got the shock of my life as I looked in a rabbit book one day though... They talked about a small rabbit breed that only got about 1 kilos which could fit well for people who wanted small pets, sure enough the picture was of a Siamese-colored netherland dwarf...however they had translated it to Dutch!
Last time I checked Dutch don't come in Siamese (not without the white areas at least) and they're WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY heavier than 1 kilo:lol: Heck even most pet shop Nethies get over 1 kilos:roll: Zakura's father was 1.9...
 
Not to my knowledge have I ever heard of a the Dwarf Indian Lop or the Tigerheads....But I have heard of somthing similar it, a breed called:

Baby Boi Minx:lol:
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The first vet I saw with Buu when she was just a baby told me she was a little rabbit with lovely grey fur when I asked what breed she was :roll: :lol: Of course she was little she was 10 weeks old :shock: :lol: He didnt even try and make up a breed he just didnt know :lol:
 
LOL!!! Your rabbit does look like one of the rarest Lop colors Dutch. Your breed is as you Englsh call it a Greman Lop (or as the US calls it the Mini Lop)
I havent seen a Dutch Lop in an AGE!!!cool!
 
I think Jane has coined the best term...
'Soona'

I'm thinking of changing all my buns breeds to that on their vacc certificates. At the moment the vets has 2 brothers down as 'choc point lionhead cross' and a 'himalyon'. Gotta love receptionists. :-D
 
I think Jane has coined the best term...
'Soona'

I'm thinking of changing all my buns breeds to that on their vacc certificates. At the moment the vets has 2 brothers down as 'choc point lionhead cross' and a 'himalyon'. Gotta love receptionists. :-D

It's even weirder taking a rat to a Norwegian vet sometimes:lol:
I've heard stories from rat owners that have had their pets classified as either hooded, dumbo or mix breed:roll: Once I found a litter in a pet shop classified as Dumbo hooded-mix :lol: Although these aren't breeds, dumbo refers to the shape of the ears and hooded is a marking, it's like calling a black lop dwarf a mix of black and lop dwarf:lol:
 
I got into a disagreement with someone who insisted that Norweigen Dwarfs EXISTED online once, I knew there wasn't, and would they listen, no :roll: It makes me frusterated :oops:
 
I can pretty much count the dwarf breeds we have in Norway on my fingers.
Even looking at the breed-list right now I can only find Hermelin (Netherland Dwarf), Dvergvedder (Lop dwarf), Løvehode (Lionhead) and Dverghare (Polish).
I also know of Lionlop which was recently approved and minirex which is still and unrecognized breed.
And if its not on the Norwegian Rabbitbreeding association's website its a fake, unless we don't know our own breeds. :roll:
 
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