flemishr2cool
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Okay ever since I started showing at ARBA shows and my mom saw her first English lop she has simply adored them. She planned on raising them when I moved out but she thought she would own a few just to show while I showed my rabbits. Everything seems normal right? Its not a recipie for disaster, however fate just won't let us have one normal healthy english lop! Here is the list of every English lop we've owned and what their weird fate has been.
Dudly: My mom's first english lop he was a blue tort, we bought from a regionally well known breeder. He was out of the best stock, he was destined to be a champion. And for his enture junior career he was, he wiped the table. Then at 9 months of age he started chewing on his ears. We tested him for everything and everything turned up negative, staph, bacteria, yeast, parasites, its like one day he decided to wake up and get rid of his ears. At his death he chewed off 4 inches on both ears! We even had him wear an e collar but he stopped eating so we had to keep it off or he would starve to death. At 11 months of age he developed a lower respiratory infection. We fought long and hard and actually had it cleared up. A month before his second birthday we went out one morning to find snot pouring out of his nose. He died that day. My mom was devastated to put it lightly
Lilybeth: Another promising blue tort doe out of the best lines. We paid big money for her. We she had 4 legs as a junior. Than at one show she was dq'd for a white tail, It was like over a month she devloped white spot under her tail, but she never had an injury there. We never got her bred because Dudly was always sick. After dudly died my mom was so devastated we sold Lilybeth because at the time she didn't want another english lop
Mary anne: While surfing the net I noticed one day that a very well known breeder had a picture of a litter for sale on her website. The litter was not from her rabbitry but she said they were going to be very good show rabbits. I talked my mom into getting a cute little broken black one. We met the lady at convention and paid big dollars. Later we find out that she had pigeon breast, and she never made senior weight, she was 4 pounds under senior weight. She was also a NASTY rabbit, We have never owned a rabbit as mean as her. We later gave her away and found out that Mary Anne came from a breeder that was raising Velveteen lops and that she wasn't an english lop, she was a velveteen lop without the rex fur.
Duncan: Duncan is a blue tort impulse buy. He is a beautiful sweet buck with the same personality as Dudly. He would wipe the tables, if it isn't for the fact that everytime he goes to a show he starts blowing white snot And the next day after the show he is fine, its just at the show. So no big deal, we just use him as a breeding buck. But when my mom only owns no more than 3 english lops at a time, it would be nice if she could show him.
Hatti: We recently bought hatti. We decided to at least get one litter of english lops before something weird happens to duncan. Two weeks after we buy her, (she was two weeks pregnant) She gets out of her cage and when we find her her eyes were draining terribly. Then she develops a chronic bone abscess, and she has a litter of 7 kits that looked like the sort of stopped developing a week before the due date, and were all born dead.
Ezabell: Which bring you to our last english lop. Esebelle is a black tort junior doe that has been doing great on the show tables and is very promising and nothing has happened to her yet ::knock on wood::
Someone please tell us we are not going crazy! its like some higher power has decided we cannot breed english lops. How can 5 out of the 6 english lops we have ever owned have SO many problems! We paid top dollar for promising rabbits. We bought from good breeders, these rabbits came from good lines. We did everything right, and every freak thing that can happen has happened to us! has anyone else ever had weird problems like this? In other words please tell us we cannot be the only ones!
::sigh:: thanks for listening to me rant, just wanted to see if anyone else has ever had these kind of problems!
Dudly: My mom's first english lop he was a blue tort, we bought from a regionally well known breeder. He was out of the best stock, he was destined to be a champion. And for his enture junior career he was, he wiped the table. Then at 9 months of age he started chewing on his ears. We tested him for everything and everything turned up negative, staph, bacteria, yeast, parasites, its like one day he decided to wake up and get rid of his ears. At his death he chewed off 4 inches on both ears! We even had him wear an e collar but he stopped eating so we had to keep it off or he would starve to death. At 11 months of age he developed a lower respiratory infection. We fought long and hard and actually had it cleared up. A month before his second birthday we went out one morning to find snot pouring out of his nose. He died that day. My mom was devastated to put it lightly
Lilybeth: Another promising blue tort doe out of the best lines. We paid big money for her. We she had 4 legs as a junior. Than at one show she was dq'd for a white tail, It was like over a month she devloped white spot under her tail, but she never had an injury there. We never got her bred because Dudly was always sick. After dudly died my mom was so devastated we sold Lilybeth because at the time she didn't want another english lop
Mary anne: While surfing the net I noticed one day that a very well known breeder had a picture of a litter for sale on her website. The litter was not from her rabbitry but she said they were going to be very good show rabbits. I talked my mom into getting a cute little broken black one. We met the lady at convention and paid big dollars. Later we find out that she had pigeon breast, and she never made senior weight, she was 4 pounds under senior weight. She was also a NASTY rabbit, We have never owned a rabbit as mean as her. We later gave her away and found out that Mary Anne came from a breeder that was raising Velveteen lops and that she wasn't an english lop, she was a velveteen lop without the rex fur.
Duncan: Duncan is a blue tort impulse buy. He is a beautiful sweet buck with the same personality as Dudly. He would wipe the tables, if it isn't for the fact that everytime he goes to a show he starts blowing white snot And the next day after the show he is fine, its just at the show. So no big deal, we just use him as a breeding buck. But when my mom only owns no more than 3 english lops at a time, it would be nice if she could show him.
Hatti: We recently bought hatti. We decided to at least get one litter of english lops before something weird happens to duncan. Two weeks after we buy her, (she was two weeks pregnant) She gets out of her cage and when we find her her eyes were draining terribly. Then she develops a chronic bone abscess, and she has a litter of 7 kits that looked like the sort of stopped developing a week before the due date, and were all born dead.
Ezabell: Which bring you to our last english lop. Esebelle is a black tort junior doe that has been doing great on the show tables and is very promising and nothing has happened to her yet ::knock on wood::
Someone please tell us we are not going crazy! its like some higher power has decided we cannot breed english lops. How can 5 out of the 6 english lops we have ever owned have SO many problems! We paid top dollar for promising rabbits. We bought from good breeders, these rabbits came from good lines. We did everything right, and every freak thing that can happen has happened to us! has anyone else ever had weird problems like this? In other words please tell us we cannot be the only ones!
::sigh:: thanks for listening to me rant, just wanted to see if anyone else has ever had these kind of problems!
