bunnylover2012
Young Bun
Just saw this article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-fur-body-covered-suncream-protect-skin.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-fur-body-covered-suncream-protect-skin.html
Wow he's tiny! I wonder if he's a peanut (a rabbit with a double dwarf gene), they usually don't live more than a few weeks but there's been a rare case where one has lived for a few years, I can't remember if they had the fur problem or not though
Wow he's tiny! I wonder if he's a peanut (a rabbit with a double dwarf gene), they usually don't live more than a few weeks but there's been a rare case where one has lived for a few years, I can't remember if they had the fur problem or not though
quarterbunny had Dude, a peanut bunny who lived for 13 years! He didn't have the fur problem though :wave:
Ive been told Stevie is a peanut :? he is just over 18 months now. he has a really strange fluffy coat and bald ears
Surviving ones tend to look like this, very large heads, tiny ears, deformed legs especially back legs
Mine has tiny ears and deformed back legs. He also had a deformed skull and deformed eyes but his coat is much longer than the one pictured
He's a Rex with a double furless gene
Daily Mail said:A rabbit born with a normal amount of hair has confused doctors after it appeared to show signs of a condition that only exists in dogs.
I thought peanuts had tiny dwarf ears, not those huge things he's got and the face doesn't look dwarf. He could be a mini lop but in the beginning the vet says what he has and it's not the normal dwarf gene in rabbits.
The article mentions that he has pituitary dwarfism, which means he does not have the dwarfing gene and is not a dwarf in the same way that a Netherland is. Pituitary dwarfism occurs when there is a problem with the pituitary gland, often inadequate production of the growth hormone. That is why he has normal proportions and features but is still abnormally small.