Texas
Fanciful Holland Lops for Sale in Texas
Blue-eyed Holland Lops for sale in Texas, and we might be closer than your own state capital.
Howdy, Texas! We’re a small rabbitry in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, and we’d be delighted to help YOU bring home the bunny you’ve been picturing.
Here’s the part Texans always like: we’re right up the road. Dallas is about four hours from our door, which makes many of you closer to us than you are to Big Bend. Drive down and meet your bunny, or let ground transport bring them to you.
We’re Rhythm & Bleu, and we raise Blue-Eyed White and Vienna-marked Holland Lops that settle in from the Panhandle to the Gulf. For the record, we’re an American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) registered rabbitry, so a real pedigree rides along with every kit.
Texas is bigger than most countries and Texas knows animals. Let’s find you a rabbit worth Texas pride.
Here is why people come to us
Holland Lops for Sale in Texas, and What Makes Ours Different
The Blue-Eyed White is among the toughest varieties in the whole breed to produce. The gene behind it is recessive, so both parents have to carry it, and even then only a share of each litter arrives with that snow coat and those blue eyes. The Vienna-marked kits, the ones with blue eyes and colorful coats, come from the same careful pairings.
Almost nobody chases that gene. We built our whole rabbitry around it. So when you go scrolling through Holland Lops for sale in Texas, that’s the look that keeps not turning up.
Our Holland Lops for sale in Texas are pedigreed, raised underfoot in the middle of family life, and handled from birth so they are used to being handled and held and are as sweet as can be. Vienna gene first, type always, and the gentlest dispositions we can breed toward.
Current Kits for Sale
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Getting a rabbit to Texas
Three ways home
Texas is close enough to give you real choices. Every one of our Holland Lops for sale in Texas can come home three ways, and which one is up to you.
Meet in person
North & Central Texas
This is the one we’d nudge most Texans toward. From the Metroplex, Sapulpa is a straight four-hour shot up US-75, an easy day trip. Even Austin and Houston are a comfortable one-day drive. You meet your little one in person, ask every question face to face, and they ride home in your lap instead of in a stranger’s van. West Texas and the valley are a bigger ask, and those folks usually decide transport is the right choice for them.
Ground transport
From, varies by route
Ground is the easy answer if the drive doesn’t fit your calendar, and Texas is well covered.
A driver rolls south out of the Tulsa area on US-75, crosses the Red River, and lands in the Metroplex in an afternoon. From there the state opens up: I-35 carries down through Waco and Austin to San Antonio, I-45 runs southeast to Houston, and I-20 heads west toward Midland and beyond. The Panhandle usually rides a different loop out of Amarillo.
Because the Texas triangle holds so many buyers, runs your way come together often. West Texas and the far valley take more patience, since a driver needs a reason to cross that much country.
A plain word about how ground works: the booking is yours to make. If you need help, we got you. We can assist in pointing you to the right transporter and run for your location.
Your little one rides climate-controlled on a route the driver’s already covering, and that shared ride is what keeps the fare kind. We pack plenty of hay and pellets, as well as your kit’s pedigree.
Air transport
About a day
At the time of writing this, Texas has the most extensive network of cargo shipping options in the country with a whopping 19 airport options. These are the Airports we ship to: Amarillo, Abilene, Austin, Beaumont, Brownsville, College Station, El Paso, Houston Intercontinental and Houston Hobby, Killeen, Laredo, Longview, Lubbock, McAllen, San Antonio, San Angelo, Tyler, Waco, Wichita Falls. The cost is $650, covering the cargo ticket, an airline-approved carrier, food and water, and the health certificate and acclimation statement the airline requires.
If air is your pick, it’s the one option we handle for you. Unlike ground, where you book the transporter yourself, we arrange the whole flight and you simply meet your bunny at the airport.
Airlines set cargo bookings about two weeks out.
The part that needs a bit of explaining
What Texas requires
Good news, and it’s refreshingly simple: Texas doesn’t require any paperwork for your pet rabbit.
No certificate, no permit, no exam. Your bunny just needs to be healthy, and ours are.
If your rabbit flies, the airline requires a health certificate regardless of the destination, and that’s already folded into the air price. So air buyers arrive with vet paperwork in hand automatically, and everyone else crosses the Red River on good health alone.
Here’s something worth knowing: Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease has been present in Texas since 2020, including in wild rabbit populations. Oklahoma has never had a single case.
This means the RHD vaccine is a conversation worth having with your Texas vet once your rabbit is home.
You can confirm current rules with the Texas Animal Health Commission at 512-719-0700, and so can we.
Texas
Questions we get
Do I need a health certificate to bring a rabbit into Texas?
Nope! Texas doesn’t require a certificate or permit for a pet rabbit. Your bun just needs to be healthy. If your rabbit flies, the airline requires one regardless, and it’s already included in the air price.
Can I just drive up and get my rabbit?
Please do, and from North or Central Texas we’d genuinely recommend it. The Metroplex to Sapulpa is about four hours up US-75, an easy day trip. You meet your bun, we answer everything in person, and they ride home with you. No paperwork, no transporter, no waiting on a route.
Should my Texas rabbit get the RHD vaccine?
It’s a fair question, and one to put to your vet once your bun is settled. Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease has been in Texas since 2020, including in wild rabbits, and the vaccine is available through Texas veterinarians. Your kit arrives from Oklahoma, which has never had a case, so you’re starting from a clean slate. Protecting that is worth a conversation.
How long does ground transport take?
It depends where you sit on the driver’s route, since the schedule is built around the whole load. The Texas triangle comes together most readily, often within days to a couple of weeks of pickup. West Texas and the valley can take longer. We’ll help you find the right transporter and read the routes.
I just want a sweet pet bunny and don’t know the breeds. Where do I start?
Right here, friend! Plenty of folks searching “rabbits for sale in Texas” or “bunnies for sale” have never heard the words Holland Lop, and that’s perfectly fine. They’re a small, floppy-eared breed with a famously mellow streak, gentle with kids and happiest living indoors with the family. If you want a sweet companion and don’t care about the fancy vocabulary, you’ve found your people.
Community
Rabbit clubs in Texas
Buying Holland Lops for sale in Texas drops you into one of the biggest rabbit communities in the country, with clubs in nearly every region and shows most months of the year.
Statewide
Texas Rabbit Breeders Association
The ARBA-affiliated state association, with a year-round sweepstakes, a long list of affiliated local clubs, and shows across Texas. Start here.
Your region
Local clubs, everywhere
Alamo Area Rabbit Club in San Antonio, Southwest RBA in Fort Worth, Harris County in Houston, Mid-Tex in Temple, Llano Estacado out in Levelland, and the East Texas RBA in the piney woods.
Breed specialty
Holland Lop Rabbit Specialty Club
The national club for the breed, worth joining wherever in Texas you live once the Holland bug bites.
Where to see rabbits shown
The State Fair of Texas in Dallas and the Houston Livestock Show both run rabbit competitions, and county fair barns are a Texas institution.
Use the ARBA club search to filter by Texas for current local and youth clubs, contacts included.
The honest ups and downs
Owning a Holland Lop in Texas
Texas hands rabbit keepers a big, generous hand with one serious catch.
The generous part is real. You’re a short drive from us, so you can meet your bunny before you commit. The rabbit community is enormous, so mentors and shows are close by wherever you live. Texas A&M runs one of the finest veterinary schools in the world, and the big metros have genuine exotic vets. There’s no paperwork to cross the state line.
Texas summer is the most serious weather threat this breed faces anywhere in the country, and east of I-35 it comes wrapped in Gulf humidity, which is the combination that steals a rabbit’s ability to cool itself. Add that RHD is present in Texas, and you have two things worth taking seriously rather than one.
Both answers are simple, though. Keep your Holland indoors where the air conditioning lives, which is where this breed wants to be anyway, and ask your vet about the RHD vaccine. Do those two things and Texas becomes one of the easiest places in America to love a rabbit.
Line one up early
Rabbit-savvy vets in Texas
Rabbits count as exotic pets, so an ordinary dog-and-cat clinic often can’t treat them. Choosing your rabbit’s vet before you ever need one is one of the smartest first moves a new owner makes, and in Texas you have options.
Neighbor’s honesty: I’m one state north, so I haven’t sat in these waiting rooms myself. But these guys come highly rated from other sources like Google.
College Station
Texas A&M
The Small Animal Teaching Hospital runs a zoological medicine service that sees rabbits, and it’s one of the top veterinary programs anywhere. For a complicated case, that’s a serious backstop for the whole state.
The metros
Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio
Every major Texas metro has avian and exotic practices that see rabbits regularly. Call and ask two questions: do any of your vets see rabbits, and who do you refer to if not?
Statewide
House Rabbit Society listings
The HRS vet directory tracks rabbit-friendly practices state by state and updates as new ones appear.
One more tip
Your county’s 4-H rabbit leader is often the best-informed person around about which local vet truly sees rabbits. In Texas, that person is never far away.
Read this before summer
Holland Lops in a Texas summer
If you’re bringing home one of our Holland Lops for sale in Texas, everything else on this page is easy and this part is not. Summer in Texas is the single biggest weather risk this breed faces here so it deserves a real plan.
Here’s why it’s worse than the raw number suggests. East of I-35, Texas heat arrives wrapped in Gulf humidity, and when the air is already saturated a rabbit loses its ability to shed warmth. Out west the air is drier, which helps, but triple digits are triple digits and need to be treated accordingly.
Winter, meanwhile, is nothing to this breed. A Holland’s coat handles a Texas cold snap rather well.
- Honestly, in Texas the answer is an indoor rabbit. Air conditioning solves this entire section, and a Holland would rather be inside with you regardless.
- Keep a rotation of frozen water bottles going all summer. Your bun will stretch out against one like it’s the best spot in the Lone Star State.
- Set a fan to move air across the space, never pointed straight at your rabbit.
- If your Holland gets outdoor time, plan the shade for the brutal late-afternoon sun, not the mild morning kind, and make it early morning or evening only.
- Feel the ears. Warm, flushed ears are the first quiet signal of a rabbit working too hard to cool down, and on a lop-eared breed that signal matters more than most. Read on for why.
More on heat safety from the House Rabbit Society, and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension runs 4-H rabbit programs and small-animal resources in every county.
A little Texas history
The state that taught us to read a rabbit’s ears
No animal says Texas quite like the jackrabbit. It’s in the tall tales, the roadside statues, the cowboy stories about ears you could see from the next county. And those ears are the whole point, in a way nobody down there ever gets credit for noticing first.
The black-tailed jackrabbit survives a Texas summer without ever sweating. Instead it runs the heat out through its ears. Those enormous ears are laced with blood vessels sitting close to the skin, and when a jack needs to cool down, it opens them up and lets the warm blood shed heat into the air. Park in the shade, put the ears up, let the desert do the rest. It’s a radiator, and it’s the reason a rabbit that lives where it hits 105 doesn’t need to pant like a dog.
Which brings us to your Holland. Every rabbit cools itself the same way, through the ears, which is why we keep telling you to feel them on a hot day. Warm ears mean a rabbit working hard.
But a Holland Lop’s ears fold down against its head. All that lovely floppiness that makes you want to scoop them up is, mechanically speaking, a radiator with the airflow turned down. It’s precisely why this breed needs your help in the summer more than a jackrabbit ever will.
So take the lesson from your own state’s rabbit. Watch the ears. And bring the sweet little floppy-eared one inside where it’s cool.
Texas built the best ears in the business. Ours just came out cuddlier.
