Since I started this blog to journal my journey in rabbit keeping to benefit others, I have to include the downsides as well as the upsides. So, I wish to confess that for the past several weeks I have been very discouraged about the prospects of showing my rabbits at all for a number of reasons, but yesterday I came to that pivotal moment of making a decision. A meat rabbit breeder explained to me recently that he does not even bother trying to fit in and avoided the "bullies," referring to rabbit breeders, who had no reservations about demeaning other breeders, particularly meat breeders who are not necessarily working towards the standard of perfection (SOP) for the breed. I knew there would be those types of people, who not only work to improve their breeding lines to meet the SOP, but practically demand that no one else sell a rabbit that is not show quality. My husband calls them the Silver Fox Rabbit Police. The SF Rabbit Police will say that selling a cull r...

The Good These past few weeks really  swooshed  by! So imagine my surprise that I had a reminder on my phone that Starry Knight and Twilight have completed their quarantine as of today. This is very good! I had them in a soft quarantine as this was my second buy from Silver Lox and I had spent quite a bit of time there looking over all her rabbits, which were quite healthy. I am so excited about Starry Knight, but I am very glad I did get some Kevlar sleeves, because he will seem to be calm after I first get him out of the cage and will seem relaxed after a time then suddenly he just goes wild trying to get away, even screaming, although I am not hurting him. He is not vicious and does not try to bite, he is just scared. I will be working with him even more now that I have these sleeves and, yes, they do offer quite a bit of protection. Even though I have kept his nails well trimmed, he is particularly good leaving bloody scratches, but not one scratch through the sleev...