May 26th, 2010

My American White buck showed up from Wisconsin today on the caravan from the East coast of the United States to the West coast and back again to the East. This is to exchange bloodlines in this rare breed of rabbit across the country. If you look close at the photo, look past the rabbits in the front of the picture and look to the front of the vehicle.. there was barely any room for the 2 human drivers and their
minimal gear with all the bunnies in their traveling cages.

Feed and hay were on top of the vehicle and staying dry in their containers even though the driver and navigator went through multiple rainstorms across alot of the country. Rabbits were picked up and dropped off at multiple checkpoints. At this point no one really knows how many animals made the exchange, but numbers ought to be calculated in a few days. The drivers were hazarding a guess of 190 exchanged thus far and they are on the loop back. Some stops were drop off one and pick up twenty and other stops were drop of fifteen and pick up three.

My rabbit was somewhere in the middle of all the rest of the animals. At least we knew we were looking for a junior White buck and not a blue, so that helped a little. "Al" is a nice looking little fellow. But if you do not know rabbit standards, he will just look like a medium sized white bunny with pink eyes. But he will be growing for another 5 months.