#Also please don't use this comic as a guide on how to hold bunnies :p

[usagi-zakura]

Sometimes I don't even know why I even bother..

Jason is right though, breed doesn't matter on bunnies... except that it means some of them may need more fur care than others... and also most pet rabbits are so mixed its impossible to tell what's even in then.

But people keep asking. And every single time someone's there to judge it by the color alone, no matter how obviously a lionhead it is... Sometimes they'll also call anything a rex if the fur doesn't' feel like sandpaper...all rabbits have soft fur... rex fur is just special... and about half the rabbits I see identified as rex rabbits are really just random normal-furred mixes.

Then lately I've had someone go the other way with the color id... not identifying the spotted bun as an English Spot as they usually do... but call it a holland lop because they have spots sometimes... as do most breeds.

That's like noticing your rabbit has four legs, and identifying it as a horse, because they too have four legs...

Color is the least effective way to identify a rabbit's breed. Especially spots because they're extremely common.

The Dutch is another breed I have issue with because there just so happens to be a different marking that sometimes resembles dutch a lot (vienna marked) but they're not actually related at all... and yet I see people claim a white and black rabbit is OBVIOUSLY dutch or part dutch... even if it has blue eyes, which is a trait vienna marked buns sometimes have and dutch rabbits do not. Sometimes spotted rabbits are called dutch too, which again not related.

As for the harlequin I have never seen a purebred harlequin my whole life... And I've been to rabbit-shows. What I have seen however are LOADS of dwarf rabbits with the harlequin (or Japanese) marking. I've even owned two of them. Both part lionhead, part lop, but they just so happen to have the Japanese marking. (And naturally I named one of them Harley Quinn...the other was named Kikki by her previous owner.)

Also guest starring my current bunnies Jason Todd the English spot Netherland dwarf and Frøya the Alaska Holland Lop.

#rabbit #usagi rants #ryuusagi comics #bunnies #Also please don't use this comic as a guide on how to hold bunnies :p #I would not recommend carrying two at once... #nor holding a baby in one hand like that second guy is doing