I must see your bunnieeeess!!! Jack & Bella are mini lops (though Bella can't rightly be called "mini" anything, she's the size of a freakin cat), but only Jack can be a show bunny because Bella doesn't have any sort of recognized fur pattern :P
Post pictures of the little guy! My name suggestion is...Boo-Boo! :)
*ahem* As a veteran of Dog Shows, I can warn you ahead of time that people involved with any kind of animal show circuit tend to be . . . . . dedicated. I'm not sure how strict Rabbit Shows are, but in the Dog Show ring they tend to nitpick over every little thing.
Example: My dog Ginger could have made Champion status (you become Champion by winning so many Best of Breeds and collecting points) except for one thing, her teeth are not the perfect "scissors bite" that Clumber Spaniels are supposed to have. As such, she never won more than Reserve (second), despite how everyone in the Clumber Spaniel breeding circle said she was beautiful.
So if you think it will be fun, go for it, just be prepared to face those over-the-top perfectionists and just plain insane people who tend to inhabit show rings. At least you won't have to wake up at 6:00 to make an 8:00 ring time like us . . . . hopefully.
Yeah, I know that show people can be crazy. The problem is that there aren't very many people showing satin angoras, especially not in our area. The breeder said that sometimes you can't get enough breeders to show up to make it actually count (you need 3, with 5 different rabbits). I won't know for a couple of months how well my bunny meets the standard, but I want to try it out, anyway.
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I'm thinking of getting a male rat and naming it either Gaius (Baltar) or Krycek.
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Post pictures of the little guy! My name suggestion is...Boo-Boo! :)
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I'll post pictures as soon as I get them onto my computer. He's soooooooo cute!
Also, I don't think I've ever seen pictures of your bunnies. Lops have their own special kind of cuteness.
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*ahem* As a veteran of Dog Shows, I can warn you ahead of time that people involved with any kind of animal show circuit tend to be . . . . . dedicated. I'm not sure how strict Rabbit Shows are, but in the Dog Show ring they tend to nitpick over every little thing.
Example: My dog Ginger could have made Champion status (you become Champion by winning so many Best of Breeds and collecting points) except for one thing, her teeth are not the perfect "scissors bite" that Clumber Spaniels are supposed to have. As such, she never won more than Reserve (second), despite how everyone in the Clumber Spaniel breeding circle said she was beautiful.
So if you think it will be fun, go for it, just be prepared to face those over-the-top perfectionists and just plain insane people who tend to inhabit show rings. At least you won't have to wake up at 6:00 to make an 8:00 ring time like us . . . . hopefully.
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and anyway, it could always be worse. or more normal, if that's your idea of worse.
that is to say, they could be cats.
*snerk*
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ps. i wnat those pics.
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