Some of You May Remember her...............

Jane she is exquisite! :love:
Can you tell us a bit about who she was? If it isn't too painful to do so of course. ((((((Hugs)))))) xxxx
 
[/FAww what a sweet girl. I think pet shops are awful, if anyone should get a rabbit it should be from a rescue or a well researched breeder. That is why everyone who gets a pet bunny from me gets a three inch stack of pamphlets to hand out to people they meet, that talk about the horrors of pet shops. Definitely a harlequin after looking at her bigger picture. A lot of people don't know this outside the breeder's world but Harlequin rabbits have special health concerns. The genes that cause their coloring, stems from a merleing/roaning gene (If you know dog breeds, if you know the Australian shepherd, are a perfect example of the merle gene) The merle gene takes base pigments and lightens them up, so lets say you have a dog that is black, if he has the merle gene, his black will turn grey and leave splotches of grey and black all over him. The gene also lightens the colors of the eye, and can sometimes cause deformities of the iris (the colored part of the eye that constricts or opens to let in or hold out light) If you breed to merle dogs together it results in babies who are known as "lethal whites" their eyes can be small or non-existent, they will be deaf, they can have huge chunks of iris missing making them blind. The same holds true for harlequin rabbits. The breed comes in two colors, japanese harlequin *black and dark orange, or magpie *white with other colors like lilac, chocolate, cream etc.* If you breed a cream magpie, to a cream magpie you get a lethal white... these rabbits can live years, but the merle gene can make them hard of hearing, facial deformities, create eye problems and weaken the walls of the blood vessels around the eye into the brain... This can lead to sudden and catastrophic stroke, which seems to be what claimed your pretty girl. A lot of unscrupulous pet store breeders will cast off their bunnies they want to cull from the herd to the pet store, and sell these poor high white babies knowing what's in store for them... people who do that need to be punished. ONT]
 
quarterbunny said:
[/FAww what a sweet girl. I think pet shops are awful, if anyone should get a rabbit it should be from a rescue or a well researched breeder. That is why everyone who gets a pet bunny from me gets a three inch stack of pamphlets to hand out to people they meet, that talk about the horrors of pet shops. Definitely a harlequin after looking at her bigger picture. A lot of people don't know this outside the breeder's world but Harlequin rabbits have special health concerns. The genes that cause their coloring, stems from a merleing/roaning gene (If you know dog breeds, if you know the Australian shepherd, are a perfect example of the merle gene) The merle gene takes base pigments and lightens them up, so lets say you have a dog that is black, if he has the merle gene, his black will turn grey and leave splotches of grey and black all over him. The gene also lightens the colors of the eye, and can sometimes cause deformities of the iris (the colored part of the eye that constricts or opens to let in or hold out light) If you breed to merle dogs together it results in babies who are known as "lethal whites" their eyes can be small or non-existent, they will be deaf, they can have huge chunks of iris missing making them blind. The same holds true for harlequin rabbits. The breed comes in two colors, japanese harlequin *black and dark orange, or magpie *white with other colors like lilac, chocolate, cream etc.* If you breed a cream magpie, to a cream magpie you get a lethal white... these rabbits can live years, but the merle gene can make them hard of hearing, facial deformities, create eye problems and weaken the walls of the blood vessels around the eye into the brain... This can lead to sudden and catastrophic stroke, which seems to be what claimed your pretty girl. A lot of unscrupulous pet store breeders will cast off their bunnies they want to cull from the herd to the pet store, and sell these poor high white babies knowing what's in store for them... people who do that need to be punished. ONT]
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Maya did not die from a stroke- confirmed by Post Mortem

I would rather this thread focused on her 8 years of happy life rather than analysing her genetics and the cause of her death.
 
Oh Jane, that was a beautiful memorial thread. I'm sorry Maya did not have more time with you. But knowing how lovingly you care for your bunny family, she had the best life with you. :love: xxxx
 
I'm sorry hun, if I came across as cold, or just interested in her death, or try to analyze it. Rabbit genetics are just a passion of mine *my thesis i'm composing towards my Veterinary Doctorate is about The Lesser Known Pathologies of Genetically Inherited Conditions of the Rabbit I know how very special our bunnies all are to us (I just eulogized the passing of my own baby Dude) and from what you said she was a very sweet bunny
 
quarterbunny said:
I'm sorry hun, if I came across as cold, or just interested in her death, or try to analyze it. Rabbit genetics are just a passion of mine *my thesis i'm composing towards my Veterinary Doctorate is about The Lesser Known Pathologies of Genetically Inherited Conditions of the Rabbit I know how very special our bunnies all are to us (I just eulogized the passing of my own baby Dude) and from what you said she was a very sweet bunny
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I don't think this is the place to mention or discuss this.


She was a beautiful bunny, and very lucky to have found you xxx
 
Aww......what a pretty bunny she was and I am sure she had 8 very happy years with you and your other buns :love:
 
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