New York
Exquisite Holland Lops for Sale in New York
Rare Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed Vienna-marked Holland Lops for sale in New York, from the Adirondacks down to a Brooklyn walk-up.
A Holland Lop weighs about as much as a bag of sugar, ears folded, cheeks full. Ours look up at you with blue eyes.
Rhythm & Bleu is an American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) registered rabbitry in Northeast Oklahoma near Tulsa. We raise Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed Vienna-marked kits in colorful coats, and every kit comes with a full pedigree.
They are handled every day from birth in the middle of a working household, vacuum running, dishes going, doors, a toddler mid-tantrum, so they leave as sociable and sweet as a rabbit can be. New York families bring one home by ground or by air, and pickup here is always free.
Why the eyes
Holland Lops for Sale in New York, and What Makes Ours Different
Blue eyes are the scarce part.
Vienna is recessive, so both parents have to carry it before a single kit can show it, and only a share of any litter ever does. Getting a line to that point takes years of patient pairings.
Our Holland Lops for sale in New York go home pedigreed, brought up in the middle of a working household, and handled by somebody every day of their lives. We breed for temperament first, then type, then color.
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Getting home
Three ways home to New York
Three ways to bring one of our Holland Lops for sale in New York home, and the first one is free.
Meet in person
always open
Pickup at our home costs nothing but the miles. Families do make a trip of it, and Old Route 66 runs practically past our door if you want the scenic version of the drive.
You meet your bunny, ask everything face to face, and she rides home in somebody’s lap that same afternoon.
Ground transport
from, route by route
Drivers coming east reach Buffalo and Rochester first, then Syracuse, Albany, and the downstate corridor.
The Thruway towns connect quickest. The North Country and the far Southern Tier ask a bit more patience. Transporters keep fixed calendars, and the wait is really for one of their planned trips to pass near your town. Rates open at $125. Booking the transporter is yours to arrange, so the trip stays in your hands. If you would ever like help finding one, just ask.
Door-to-door flight
we handle the booking
Air folds that long haul into one calm travel day. We set up the flight and handle the arrangements. We fly into Kennedy, LaGuardia, White Plains, Albany, Ithaca, Rochester, and Buffalo, which covers the city, the Hudson, the Finger Lakes, and the western end alike. Routes do shift from time to time, so we confirm your airport together when you book.
The $650 covers everything, cargo ticket, airline-approved carrier, food and water, and the health certificate with its acclimation statement. Airlines open cargo booking about two weeks ahead, so leave yourself a little runway.
The paperwork
What New York requires
Nothing at all. New York is refreshingly direct about this. The Department of Agriculture and Markets lists rabbits on its own import page and says plainly that the state has no importation requirements for them.
No certificate, no permit, no forms. The state does ask that rabbit owners stay aware of rabbit hemorrhagic disease, which is easy enough here: Oklahoma has never recorded a case, and every kit here is raised in the middle of the house and handled daily.
Would you like a health certificate anyway, purely for your own peace of mind? Happy to arrange it. We’ll book the appointment and get everything lined up and in order for $100.
If your kit flies, the airline asks for a certificate regardless, and that one is already folded into the $650.
New York publishes its requirements through the Department of Agriculture and Markets, and its Division of Animal Industry answers questions at 518-457-3502.
The practical bits
What New York families ask
What are you promising us?
Your kit goes home well socialized, thriving, and used to hands from her first week. She comes with a 72-hour health guarantee.
It is all set down plainly on our sales policy page.
Do blue eyes bring health trouble?
Not a bit. Vienna is a color gene and color is the whole of its work, the coat and the eyes, and the rabbit underneath is as sound as any Holland on a show table.
Our Holland Lops for sale in New York are pedigreed and handled every day from birth, so they leave here as sociable and sweet as a rabbit can be.
Will a lop be happy in an apartment?
Yes, absolutely. A Holland Lop is a small, quiet, litter-trainable animal that sleeps most of the day and wants a few hours of evening company. No yard required, and no neighbors woken.
Give her a pen or a rabbit-proofed room, a couple of hours out to stretch and binky each evening, and she will be perfectly content in a one-bedroom.
Does my rabbit need paperwork for New York?
No. New York states outright that it has no importation requirements for rabbits, so there is nothing to file.
Flying? The airline wants a certificate regardless, and it is already inside the $650. For ground or pickup, we can arrange one for $100 if you would simply rather have it in hand.
How long does ground transport take?
It depends where you sit on the driver’s route, since the schedule gets built around the whole load.
The North Country and the far Southern Tier can take longer. The driver’s route decides the timing, and the booking stays in your hands. If you would ever like help finding one, just ask.
Find your people
Clubs and shows in New York
A lop is an easy way into a warm circle of breeders, show families, and 4-H kids. Here is where to start looking.
Near you
Local Clubs & 4-H
New York’s county fair and 4-H tradition runs deep, from the Finger Lakes to the Hudson Valley, and a local all-breed club is the fastest road to a mentor and a show table.
The breed
Holland Lop Specialty Club
The Holland Lop Rabbit Specialty Club is the breed’s national home, the place for standards, sweepstakes, and everything worth knowing about type and color in these little lops.
The district
ARBA District 7
New York shows in ARBA District 7 alongside all six New England states, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. A compact district, so a sanctioned show is rarely a punishing drive.
Shows and fairs worth a visit
The Great New York State Fair in Syracuse is among the oldest in the nation and fills its small-animal barns every summer, while county fairs across the state keep the tradition going all season.
For sanctioned rabbit shows near you, the ARBA club search keeps the current list.
The ups and downs
Owning a Holland Lop in New York
New York is one of the best places anywhere to keep a rabbit, and the reason is unglamorous: almost everyone here already lives indoors with their animals.
Dangerous heat is rare, which removes the single biggest worry a rabbit family faces, and a Holland Lop is small, quiet, and tidy enough to suit a walk-up as easily as a farmhouse.
The catch is space and stairs. City apartments run small, and a carrier down four flights to a taxi takes planning, especially in February.
Both are solvable before she arrives. Pick your vet and work out how you would get there on a bad weather day, and the rest of apartment rabbit life is easy.
Rabbit-savvy care
Finding a good vet in New York
A rabbit needs a veterinarian who sees rabbits often, and New York is better supplied than most states.
Straight with you: I’m in Oklahoma, so these are researched recommendations rather than places I’ve been. They come well rated, and one quick call ahead will tell you whether they’re taking new rabbit patients and the fit feels right.
Ithaca
Cornell Companion Animal Hospital
Cornell’s teaching hospital lists exotics directly among the animals it serves, sees tens of thousands of small animals a year, and keeps exotics alongside anesthesiology, cardiology, imaging, surgery, and neurology under one roof. For a complicated case there is nothing better.
The city and beyond
Two quick questions
Down in the boroughs or out on the Island, ring a clinic and ask a pair of things: do they see rabbits regularly, and would they be comfortable performing a rabbit spay or neuter. Two confident yeses and you can stop looking.
Statewide
The directory route
The House Rabbit Society keeps a vet directory reaching across New York, maintained by people who take their own rabbits to the clinics they list.
One more resource
Your county 4-H rabbit leader always knows which local vet the show families call first, and asking costs nothing at all.
Seasonal care
Caring for a Holland Lop through a New York year
Where you live in this state changes the job entirely. Our Holland Lops for sale in New York settle in beautifully in a studio or a farmhouse, though the small print differs.
A handful of steady habits carries a bunny comfortably right around the calendar.
- Steam radiators run hot and dry things out fast, so keep her pen well clear of one and watch that her water does not vanish overnight.
- In a smaller apartment, give her a couple of hours out each evening to stretch and binky, which matters far more to a rabbit than square footage does.
- Work out your bad-weather route to the vet before you need it, whether that means a car service, a friend, or a carrier you can manage one-handed on stairs.
- Upstate, check her water twice a day through January, since a bottle can freeze in a cold back room while the rest of the house feels fine.
- When July turns sticky, go by the feels-like number rather than the thermometer and give her a frozen bottle to lean against.
For deeper reading, Cornell Cooperative Extension publishes dependable small-animal and 4-H guidance, and rabbit.org is the friendly reference we hand to every new rabbit family.
A little New York history
Broadway’s most famous rabbit
In November of 1944 a play opened at the 48th Street Theatre about a gentle man named Elwood P. Dowd and his closest friend, a six-foot white rabbit called Harvey. The joke, and the whole heart of it, is that nobody else can see Harvey.
Audiences adored it. Harvey ran 1,775 performances across four and a half years, one of the longest runs any non-musical had managed on Broadway, and it won Mary Chase the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1945. She was only the fourth woman ever to take it.
So the most celebrated rabbit in New York history was a white one that nobody could lay eyes on. Our Holland Lops for sale in New York are the exact opposite proposition. You will not be able to stop looking at her.
Ready for a bunny of your own?
