Nice lagomorph you got here

Thanks! :) I'm really pleased with her. :)

She has a nice grey color fur ^_^

I had full sized rex, she was sure a lot bigger! Wow, three pounds

I considered Standard Rex but I've already got a herd of larger/fullsize rabbits, and I had bought a lot of used cages a year ago and they came with a block of "dwarf sized" holes...so I decided on Mini Rex. :) To be totally honest my first Mini Rex was sort of an impulse-buy, LOL!!! I needed a third breed like I needed a hole in my head. But they are so little and take up almost no space. ;) Unlike my Champagnes and my Angora...big suckers, they are!!!

Ahhh she looks so soft. Rexs have such lovely fur.

Thanks! :) She is unbelievably soft. That's what got me addicted, those squishy rex with their squishy fur!!!

Aww, she's a doll! And she looks just like my boy, Frank: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6930710/
He's just a lazy, fixed, floppy house rabbit now, but was apparently of show quality when I got him. I'd like to try the show circuit when I can add another bun to my zoo. Mini rexes are lovely, but seem quite common, so I'm looking into getting a Dwarf Hotot.

OMG he's adorable!!!! LOVE the "bread" poses. ;)

Mini Rex are super-popular and that does mean they're all over the place...and showing them can be a bitch. I've already run into some real flaming assholes...people who think they are awesomesauce and feel the need to deride or just act cruel to other people. Some of them are super inconsiderate, too...I had posted on a rabbit group that I was looking for a doe (not the blue, another doe) and some jerk messaged me to tell me I should just give up on Mini Rex because I'm new and so I'll never be as good as her and how she hopes nobody will sell me any foundation stock because she doesn't want to see a pile of crap on the judge's table.

Of course, I've also met some WONDERFUL Mini Rex people...the gal who sold the blue doe to me took some extra time to show me how to correctly pose them...another gal all but gave me a lovely brood doe because she "remembers what it is like to be new" and wanted me to have a good start in the breed...a friend of mine breeds/shows Mini Rex and she has REALLY helped me to understand coat texture and quality, and she even facilitated my buck purchase. I know Champagnes, not Mini Rex, so I asked her to help me find a good buck that would compliment my does. She used her influence as an established breeder to get a top quality variety-winning pedigreed AND registered proven buck for an insanely low price. Normally he'd be worth a couple hundred...I got him for a song. :D

It's so different than the Champagne people...as Champs are pretty rare, the Champ people will bend over backwards for each other. It's like a whole new world, dealing with Mini Rex people, LOL!!! But I love the breed so I'll cope with the jerks. ;)

Oh man, Dwarf Hotots are some of the most ridiculously cute rabbits IN THE UNIVERSE. They are almost too cute to even look real!!! :)

Once upon a time I bought a mini rex from a mini rex breeder. She ended up being two feet long (nose to butt, stretched out) and 25 pounds (not fat either). XD I called the breeder; she had NO idea what happened there.

I loved her to pieces because she loved me back. She HATED everyone else, was foul tempered, bitey, and wouldn't permit petting from anyone but me. When I held her, she'd snuggle into my boobs and totally relax. it infurated my brother SO much.

I'd love to have rex rabbits again. I love their fur.. and those adorable curly whiskers! :D

LOL sounds like a Standard Rex throwback!!! XD!!! 25 pounds? Holy crap, even my monster-sized Champagne buck isn't that big!!!

Gotta spread the Rex-y love!!! :)

She was ENORMOUS. When she stretched out and relaxed completely, she took up her WHOLE hutch (which was ACTUALLY a three-chamber hutch I took the walls out of so she'd have more space!). I had to cut out the door to her hutch and make a new, bigger one so we could get her in and out of it safely. @_@

She was a castor rex, and when she was a baby, she looked like a wild rabbit, with the orange spot behind her head. Every once in a while, I'd catch her eating grasshoppers and ants, and once she kicked a sparrow to death. It thought chilling next to a bunny was safe; she showed it otherwise. :/

I've never had a rabbit as tempramental as she was. And I've had many, many rabbits. XD

:heart: I adore them so.

I had one crazy doe...nasty tempered, just a pain in the butt...she was lanky, too, so I tried to resolve that by breeding her to the beefiest, most muscular buck I could find. I made sure the buck was as mellow as can be in the hopes her kits would be mellow and chunky.

Yeah they were all lanky as hell and every damn one of them had her evil temperament. At the age of four weeks, they'd scream like you were KILLING them if you picked them up...by five weeks they had begun biting and kicking whenever touched.

I was like "I AM SO DONE WITH ALL OF YOU" and I culled the entire bloodline. I'm so grateful none of my current herd have funky temperaments!!! I mean does will be does, but...that aside, nobody I own is actually nasty, lol!

Your Rex sounds like a beautiful critter!!! If I had space for another variety I'd consider castors...they're soooooo pretty. Alas, I lack space, and three varieties of Mini Rex is enough for me. ;)

I had a New Zealand buck that was like that. Huge, beefy, built like a tank, solid muscle... most docile creature I ever handled. You could do ANYTHING to that guy, he just didn't give a shit. He used to like to snuggle his face into the side of my neck when I held him.. I miss the tickle of his whiskers in my ear sometimes.

I'm so glad I never had to cull a litter like that. It would have broken my heart. ;_; I love the babies and the mommies and the daddies so much.

My little lady was quite pretty, for sure. I never got to breed her but I think she would have made a good mother; she was always practicing nesting, building baby-caves in her hutch, things like that. I suspect some of her foul temper may have been redirected breeding instincts. She bonded decently with my dad and was completely devoted to me, so she wasn't a completely lost cause. And she wasn't a screamer, thank goodness. She was a swimmer, though, which I thought was weird. Our lot was lined with trees, and we always kept a small, shallow pool of water at the base of each tree. Any time I'd put her on a leash and let her down to graze in the grass, she'd take off to the trees and jump right in the pool and paddle around. o.O

You are probably right, when my does get pissy they usually want to be bred. :) The blue is cranky and wants breeding but of course I cannot hand her over to the buck til she's healed. :P

My NZ buck I used to have a really nice rabbit. :) I do prefer the temperaments of the Champagnes though, they're SO mellow.

OMG. Hope you took pictures!!! Swimming rabbits are rare. :P

Hahaha, rabbits and people have some of the same problems. XD I'm sure she'll be a lot happier once her infection heals and she can have her way with your buck! :D

I liked my New Zealands; they were always really well behaved... but to be honest, I got a little bored with them because they just.. didn't have much personality. Most of our herd was Californians, and all of ours were calm like the New Zealands I had but much more social and active.

I was really young at the time and didn't own a camera; I miss her so much, I WISH we'd taken pictures of her and her weirdness. All I have are two badly-developed polaroids.

:/

Yeah...I am nuts over my Mini Rex because they have personality plus. :) I think most commercial breeds have limited personality, bred too long for docile stupidity LOL. ;)

Pretty much. Every meat-breed rabbit I've handled was the same way.. sweet, calm, but small personalities.

I like the feisty ones better! I had a pretty feisty dutch buck for a while; he used to tear around the house top speed, then skid to a stop into a pile of blankets by the couch. XD

LOL! I'm in love with my sassy, cranky little blue Breezy. :) Actually all the MR, each one is so different!!! Breezy is a cranky butt...she'll pose pretty as a picture but she'll shove your hand out of the way to get to her pellets. When you pet her she looks at you like "...why are you touching me?" Whereas Gem, my BEW, wants to be in your hands and hugged. She's a MAJOR snuggler. Rockstar, my buck...he lives life in all-caps. Seriously, if his life had subtitles it would go like "HECK YEAH I'M EATING PELLETS THESE PELLETS ARE AWESOME AND I AM AWESOME AND MY AWESOME SELF IS EATING THESE AWESOME PELLETS"...he's a riot. :)

Ahahah! I love it! I think Rockstar is my favorite! :D

This is Rockstar: http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot.....10997617_n.jpg

He looks so cranky there!!! It was supper time and instead he's in a photo shoot. He's all "WHERE'S MY GODDAMN PELLETS?!" LOL!!!

:D He's handsome! With his well shaped ears and those crinkle-whiskers! I don't mind the glaring eye, though he seems to be more a model for www.disapprovingrabbits.com than a fine, handsome studmuffin in that picture.

LOL, I shall submit him and see if they post his picture. ;) He looks a LOT less disapproving when he's got a fully belly. ;)

Most rabbits look pretty fat n' happy with a full belly. Even the fifey little wild ones settle down in the grass and soak up the sun after they eat.

Or that blissful look they make when you rub between their eyes or the base of their ears. <3

Too true...the way to a bunny's heart...is through the stomach. ;)

My dutch buck had a ridiculous fondness for maple syrup.

When he was a wee baby, he had a ridiculously bad eye infection and the vet compounded his antibiotics in maple syrup to make them more palatable to him, as rabbits are notorious in their fondness for sweets.

Ever after, we had to fight him off at waffle time. XD

LOL cute!!! :) Might have to offer mine a taste. :)

I've had several that were fond of small nibbles of banana too.. you just have to be careful with them because they will get to where they prefer sweet things over their hay and pellets and get sick from not eating properly. XD Little piglets.

LOL yeah, I stopped offering dried apple because of that. :P Once in a while a little romaine but other'n that, I feed just hay/pellets..........except occasional treats. ;)

I mostly reserve sweet fruits as treats and weight-gain aids for sick buns or as aids to deliver medicines.

Sick babbies need extra lovins. ^^;

Is true. :)

I hope you don't mind my rabbit-babble. I miss them and none of my friends here have ever owned any.

Oh not at all!!! I love to ramble on about my herd. <3!!! Hey are you on FB? I post a lot of pictures and rabbit-related posts there. :)

I am on the Face-spizzle! XD

I never get tired of talking about, looking at, playing with, grooming, feeding, and loving on rabbits! :D

Thanks!!! Oh man I'm so hoping. :) The buck I just got compliments her so perfectly, both in coat and conformation, as well as color. Her sire was a red-eyed-white...the buck I bought is a red-eyed-white. I'm hoping for a rainbow of cuteness that'll rock the show table!!! :D

Have you ever owned one of the lion maned rabbits before? I always wanted one because of their fluffy cuteness. Sadly I can't have any other critters since I have a cat and a dog. x.x

LOL I have a dog and two cats, too. ;)

Never had a lionhead...only saw one in person for the first time recently. :P They're still not accepted by the ARBA (soon I hope though) and they're not my thang...got too much floof in my Angoras. ;) But they ARE darn cute!!!!!!!!!!

My mom used to breed rabbits, but that was back when I was a baby. I'd love to get a rabbit but ma would kill me if I brought another critter into the house. Once we don't have the dog and the cat anymore she doesn't want any other pets. Eh, I gues once I get my own place someday I could have all the fluff balls I want.