Rabbit breed?

[Moosethebunny]

Moose is a doe I’ve had her for about 3 months but I don’t know how old she was where I got her. I purchased her from a pet store and she’s gotten bigger but idk how much bigger she will get. I’ve already upgraded her cage too because she out grew the first one.

[joea64]

She’s very likely still less than a year old if she’s still growing. If she hasn’t been spayed yet, I recommend it both for health reasons (to eliminate the risk of uterine cancer) and for behavioral reasons (especially if you plan to get a second bunny down the road and bond the pair), as well as to prevent undesired litters if Moose ever gets close to an unneutered male.

But to get back to your original question; all I can really tell is that she has upright ears, is short-furred and has some kind of light brown and cream fur pattern. She might even be a mix. It’s hard to tell from a front view; do you have a side-view picture? (I am pretty sure the bun in your profile picture is an English Spot, though!)

[Moosethebunny]

Here’s some pictures I thing I got them to load

[jerseygirl]

I agree, she looks to be under a year old. Are you able to upload some other images of her? [edit to add: Nevermind! Your second post was not up when I asked this. I see you’ve provide more photos now!]

It can be difficult to tell breed sometimes. Many pet store buns are a mix of breeds OR come from show breeders and the rabbits were classed as “pet quality” meaning they have “faults” that wouldn’t allow them to be showed or bred . Faults can simply be wrong size, wrong colourations, fur quality, even wrong coloured nails! So it’s more cosmetic then anything.

Joe, lots of rabbits get labelled as English Spot (especially in shelter system) but it’s purely from the pattern of the coat. It’s a pattern that is common in many breeds. The breed itself is not common and they have a very arched, hare-like body type.
In the UK, the coat pattern Moose has is even referred to as “English” but again, not as reference to the breed. In US, the coat pattern it is often referred to as “broken” as in, a colour broken by white. Sometimes with the colour over the nose, the rabbit might be referred to as a butterfly, (like english spot breed has) but again, nothing to do with breed.
It gets REALLY confusing as many colours (occuring in many breeds) have same name as some breed names. For example. himalayan, harlequin, silver marten, chinchilla…are coat patterns seen in a lot of breeds. But there are also rabbit Breeds called Himalayan, Silver Marten, Harlequin, chinchilla..
They don’t make it easy!
The breed hotot is another that is mislabelled a lot. If the rabbit has the dark eye rings, it is often assumed to be hotot breed. But if they have colour on the ears or anywhere else on the body, they are likely not hotot at all.

[jerseygirl]

Ohh, she is pretty. She looks like a lean bunny like they do when under a year old. My 1st rabbit looked similar to her in body form around 7-8 months old.
Do you know her weight?

Im still uncertain on her breed or mix (maybe mini rex cross with something else?) but her coat looks to be what is called a tricolour.

[Boston's Mama]

I would guess english spot cross – not just because of the markings, as jersey mentioned – many are mislabeled based off the coat pattern – but in this case moose has a sort of English spot shape too…
Her colour is tri ( if she was just orange and white she would be broken orange – but she has three colours so becomes tri )
She looks to have grown a lot since her baby picture – and lost the baby look she had from first pic too – I would say she was anywhere from 3-4months in first photo – so 6-7months roughly now at a guess …

[jerseygirl]

There was a duplicate thread now deleted but this image from it wasn’t in this thread.  This is one from when you first brought her home?  The ears always look so big when the body is still growing. It’s an adorable look.

[joea64]

Posted By jerseygirl on 8/17/2017 12:32 AM

I agree, she looks to be under a year old. Are you able to upload some other images of her? [edit to add: Nevermind! Your second post was not up when I asked this. I see you’ve provide more photos now!]

It can be difficult to tell breed sometimes. Many pet store buns are a mix of breeds OR come from show breeders and the rabbits were classed as “pet quality” meaning they have “faults” that wouldn’t allow them to be showed or bred . Faults can simply be wrong size, wrong colourations, fur quality, even wrong coloured nails! So it’s more cosmetic then anything.

Joe, lots of rabbits get labelled as English Spot (especially in shelter system) but it’s purely from the pattern of the coat. It’s a pattern that is common in many breeds. The breed itself is not common and they have a very arched, hare-like body type.
In the UK, the coat pattern Moose has is even referred to as “English” but again, not as reference to the breed. In US, the coat pattern it is often referred to as “broken” as in, a colour broken by white. Sometimes with the colour over the nose, the rabbit might be referred to as a butterfly, (like english spot breed has) but again, nothing to do with breed.
It gets REALLY confusing as many colours (occuring in many breeds) have same name as some breed names. For example. himalayan, harlequin, silver marten, chinchilla…are coat patterns seen in a lot of breeds. But there are also rabbit Breeds called Himalayan, Silver Marten, Harlequin, chinchilla..
They don’t make it easy!
The breed hotot is another that is mislabelled a lot. If the rabbit has the dark eye rings, it is often assumed to be hotot breed. But if they have colour on the ears or anywhere else on the body, they are likely not hotot at all.

Oh yeah! My Panda was identified by Friends of Rabbits, when they posted her and her kits for adoption on Petfinder and elsewhere, as a dwarf/English spot mix (her boy, my Fernando, just got “dwarf mix” but Fernando’s sister Lorna was tagged as a hotot mix because she has the same dark circles around her eyes that hotots do even though hotots are actually pure white and she’s got black ears like her mommy). I had to eyeball the buns last month at FoR’s adoption event in Burke, VA and then look at a LOT of pictures online before I worked out that they’re very likely, I want to say almost certainly (but I doubt I’ll ever know for sure unless by some stroke of luck I come across the place from whence they came) Polish rabbits. Panda has classic broken-black-and-white Polish coloration and Fernando is a perfect REW (which was in fact the original Polish bun color scheme!), and both of them have the authentic Polish body and head shapes. All I know for sure is that Panda and her kits were rescued from a shelter in Maryland early this year, not long after the babies were born, so it’s possible that while Panda is purebred her kits are mixes.

Interestingly enough, the other pair that I was considering adopting is probably English spot mixes. They’re a lot leaner in body than P and F with a body shape like what you describe, and have a white-and-creamy-brown spot pattern (they’re distinguishable chiefly because they have spots on opposite sides of their noses).

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