Is this rabbit a dwarf? (Pictures)

[JetTheDwarf]

Hello. I have been thinking about adopting this rabbit, but I am not sure if it is a dwarf. The website doesn't have a visible contact option (stupid, I know). So any help?

 

[JetTheDwarf]

Sorry for the enlarged images! Here are the links to the originals:

http://rabbitrescue.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Panther1.jpg

http://rabbitrescue.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Panther2.jpg

http://rabbitrescue.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Panther3.jpg

 

[Blue eyes]

The originals are huge too! I can't see them because they are so large.

 

[Watermelons]

It looks like some kind of lion head mix.

Which is not in itself a dwarf breed like a Netherland Dwarf. But it is still a smaller breed of rabbit.
Dwarf doesn't really mean anything anyway. Just a name.

I've removed the photos from your original post as they were stretching the page and not even loading properly for me.

 

[Blue eyes]

Are you asking because you are hoping/looking for a smaller rabbit for a particular reason?

 

[ladysown]

this rabbit looks to weigh 4-6 lbs. Based on body size next to bowl. Ears look too large to be a 3 lbs rabbit.

 

[Nancy McClelland]

Looks like it has some features of a Netherland Dwarf in the mix with some definite signs of Lion in the DNA.

 

[squidpop]

I agree that he looks like a lion head netherland dwarf. The shape of his eyes remind me so much of my nethies. He looks like he would be around 3 1/2 lbs to me because he looks around the same size as one of mine next to the light switch.

 

[Klelia_Jerry]

I agree it looks like a lion head mix.

 

[Preitler]

Dwarf doesn't really mean anything anyway. Just a name..

Hm, I thought there was a dwarf gene (which can result in peanuts sometimes), and that is the difference between dwarf and normal rabbits? Or is every small rabbit simply called "dwarf"?

 

[Watermelons]

Hm, I thought there was a dwarf gene (which can result in peanuts sometimes), and that is the difference between dwarf and normal rabbits? Or is every small rabbit simply called "dwarf"?

Yes there is a dwarf gene. Some rabbits within a breed (Like Holland lops) can be born with it and be small, with double and be a peanut, or get squat and be bigger, yet their still called the same breed.

There are also numerous "small" breeds that do not have a "dwarf" gene. Yet are still a similar size to those "dwarfs".
Lionheads are usually small 3lb compact rabbits.

People tend to overuse the word dwarf to either upsell rabbits that will be larger (Typically seen in petstores) or to label their small rabbit.

 

[squidpop]

The word "dwarf" next to a rabbit can be confusing. If you breed two netherland dwarfs that carry the dwarf gene- the litter could have babies with one dwarf gene, or no dwarf genes, or two dwarf genes (peanuts). The babies born in the litter that do not inherit the dwarf genes grow a little bit larger and have longer head shapes—they are usually called BUBs and BUDs (Big Ugly Does and Bucks, so mean. The babies who inherit the dwarf gene have the flatter faces and cute round head shape. .... So the rabbit in the photo posted here, looks like it probably doesn't have the dwarf gene because its face isn't flat- but it might still be called a dwarf because its from a dwarf breed. The good think about getting the Bubs and Buds as pet is they have less of a chance of having malocclusions because their faces aren't flat.

 

[Preitler]

Well, thanks for that explanation

 

[Klelia_Jerry]

Can I ask something? This baby rabbit has the dwarf gene?

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[flemishwhite]

Hello. I have been thinking about adopting this rabbit, but I am not sure if it is a dwarf. The website doesn't have a visible contact option (stupid, I know). So any help?

Looks like a very nice rabbit. I'd say adopt it. I don't know if it's a dwarf, but anyhow it's not that big.