Minnesota
Cozy Holland Lops for Sale in Minnesota
Blue-eyed Holland Lops for sale in Minnesota, snowy Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed kits in a whole range of Vienna colors, raised in a warm Oklahoma home and made for long northern evenings.
Come on in, Minnesota, and get comfortable. If YOU have been dreaming of a little lop with true blue eyes, the kind that makes company set down their coffee and lean in for a better look, you have wandered into exactly the right corner of the internet.
Our rabbitry lives in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, just outside Tulsa, and here is a happy piece of geography. Interstate 35 runs nearly door to door between us, about seven hundred miles from our kitchen to the Twin Cities. That makes Minnesota one of our easier deliveries. Or if you feel like a road trip, picking up in person is always free.
We’re an American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) registered rabbitry, raising blue-eyed Holland Lops, the rare snow-white kind and the Vienna-marked kind in colorful coats, that settle in from a St. Paul bungalow to a lake place up north. They grow up underfoot in the middle of our family’s days, passed from lap to lap, so by the time one reaches you they are well socialized and happy.
Holland Lops for Sale in Minnesota, and What Makes Ours Different
The difference is in those gorgeous eyes.
Those blue eyes come from the Vienna gene, and they stay rare because coaxing them into a line takes years of patient, careful pairings. It is what sets our Holland Lops for sale in Minnesota apart, whether they arrive snow-white or in a colorful Vienna-marked coat.
Every kit here is pedigreed, raised underfoot in the middle of family life, and handled from birth. Vienna gene first, type always, and the gentlest dispositions we can breed toward.
Current Kits for Sale
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Getting home
Two ways home to Minnesota
Getting Holland Lops for sale in Minnesota from our door to yours is simpler than you might guess, and the choice is yours.
Ground transport
priced by the route
Small-animal transporters heading north out of Oklahoma pick up Interstate 35 at Kansas City, and from there it is one long ribbon of road, straight through Des Moines and up into the Twin Cities. Around seven hundred miles all told, which in the world of rabbit transport is genuinely an easy trip.
Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the towns along I-35 come together fastest, since that is the line most runs follow. Duluth, the lake country, and the western prairie ask for a bit more patience. Transporters keep their own fixed calendars, and the wait for a transporter usually stems from the time it takes for one of their planned trips to pass near your doorstep. Pricing starts at $125 and rises depending on state taxes and what different transporters charge. You book the transporter yourself, the booking stays in your hands, and we can help you find the right one if you need some assistance.
Door-to-door flight
all in
At this distance many Minnesota families find ground transport suits them just fine, and the flight is a comfort rather than a necessity. Where air shines is in the time saved. It trades an open-ended wait for one settled travel day, with your kit landing at Minneapolis Airport or Rochester Airport and home in time for supper.
The $650 covers it all, the cargo ticket, an airline-approved carrier, food and water for the trip, and the health certificate with its acclimation statement. We arrange every bit of it. Airlines open cargo bookings about two weeks ahead, so allow a little runway between reserving your kit and welcoming it home.
The paperwork
What Minnesota requires
Minnesota keeps this tidy, which feels very Minnesotan of it. State rule says all birds and mammals entering Minnesota arrive with a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection. This is a note from a licensed veterinarian saying your bunny was examined and found healthy to travel. One document, no permit, no tests, and the whole thing is done in a single vet visit before the trip.
Does all that feel a little overwhelming? No worries. Let us take care of the details for you. We’ll book the appointment and get the certificate lined up and in order for $100.
If your bunny flies, the health certificate is folded into the $650 and finished before boarding.
If you enjoy reading the fine print with your coffee, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health publishes its import guidance, and their St. Paul office answers questions kindly at 651-296-2942.
Good questions
Questions Minnesota families ask
What are you promising me?
No rabbit ever leaves here sick, every kit carries a 72-hour health guarantee, and if life ever shifts in a way you didn’t see coming, our door stays open to take that rabbit back, however far down the road it is.
It’s all laid out plainly on our sales policy page.
Is a blue-eyed Holland as hardy as any other?
Every bit. The Vienna gene colors the coat and the eyes and leaves the rest of the rabbit exactly as sound as any Holland at the state fair.
Ours are pedigreed and grow up handled every single day, so your kit arrives calm, friendly, and ready for a warm Minnesota living room.
Does my rabbit need a health certificate?
Yes. Minnesota asks that all mammals entering the state come with a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection, filed electronically by the issuing vet. If your kit flies, the certificate is included in the $650 and completed before departure. If it travels by ground or rides home in your own car, you can book the vet visit yourself, or hand the whole errand to us for $100 and consider it done.
How long does ground transport take?
The drive itself is about ten and a half hours up I-35, so once a transporter has your kit aboard, it can arrive as soon as the same day. But expect up to two weeks from pickup to meet your new best friend. The I-35 corridor through the Twin Cities connects quickest, while Duluth and the lake country can take a little longer.
Could we just drive down and pick up our bunny?
You absolutely could, and honestly, it makes a sweet trip. Sapulpa sits about ten and a half hours south of the Twin Cities, nearly all of it on I-35, so some families split it over a weekend and meet their kit where it was born. Pickup in person is always free, and the ride back is one long cuddle with a carrier in the back seat.
Find your people
Clubs and rabbit folks in Minnesota
Twin Cities & beyond
Minnesota Companion Rabbit Society
A warm-hearted nonprofit devoted to pet rabbits and their people, offering Bunny Basics classes, community events with names as good as Hoppy Hour, and a volunteer team happy to answer questions.
Local & 4-H
ARBA Clubs & County Fairs
Minnesota’s 4-H rabbit tradition runs deep, and ARBA-sanctioned clubs around the state host shows through the year. The club search will surface the ones nearest your kitchen table.
Breed & district
Holland Lop Specialty Club
The Holland Lop Rabbit Specialty Club is the breed’s national home, a lovely place to fall down the rabbit hole of type and color. Minnesota belongs to ARBA District 3, with Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, and the Dakotas.
Shows and fairs worth a visit
The Minnesota State Fair, the Great Minnesota Get-Together itself, fills its livestock and 4-H barns every late summer, and county fairs across the state keep the small-animal tradition humming.
For sanctioned rabbit shows near you through the year, the ARBA club search keeps the current list.
The honest ups and downs
Owning a Holland Lop in Minnesota
Minnesota gets described by its winters. We would rather describe it by its living rooms, because that is where this state truly shines, and it is exactly where a Holland Lop belongs.
Think of what Minnesotans already do beautifully. Long evenings in, warm kitchens, blankets within reach, a certain talent for making the inside of a home the best place on earth from November through March. A lop slots into that life like it was designed for it, because in a sense it was. This is a naturally cool-weather animal wearing a permanent sweater, happiest indoors, near its people, while the snow does whatever it likes outside. Add strong 4-H roots, a kind companion-rabbit community, and a veterinary school right in the Twin Cities, and Minnesota makes a lovely rabbit state.
The honest cautions are the ones you would guess. The deep freeze means any water source in an unheated space turns to ice remarkably fast, so outdoor arrangements are a constant chore in January. And the short summer brings a muggy stretch where damp heat leans on a rabbit hard.
Both concerns share one answer. Keep the bunny inside, where the solution in January is a fireplace and in July it is a fan. An indoor Minnesota lop spends the coldest months doing what the whole state does best, staying cozy together.
Rabbit-savvy care
Finding a good vet in Minnesota
A rabbit deserves a vet who sees rabbits all the time, and not every clinic does. The good news is that the Twin Cities anchor one of the stronger rabbit-medicine regions in the Midwest.
St. Paul
University of Minnesota Veterinary Medical Center
The teaching hospital of the U of M’s College of Veterinary Medicine sees companion exotics including rabbits, with specialty services behind it when a case calls for more. Teaching hospitals are gold for rabbit families, and Minnesota has one right in town.
Ask the rabbit people
Minnesota Companion Rabbit Society
The MCRS volunteer team fields care questions by email and knows firsthand which Twin Cities clinics rabbit families trust. There is no better shortcut than asking the people who live this every day.
Greater Minnesota
Two quick questions
Up north or out on the prairie, call a clinic and ask two things. Do they see rabbits regularly, and would they be comfortable performing a rabbit spay or neuter. Two easy yeses, and you can stop looking.
One more resource
The House Rabbit Society’s directory at houserabbit.org covers the whole state, and your county 4-H rabbit leader always knows the local names worth trusting.
Seasonal care
Caring for a Holland Lop through a Minnesota year
Minnesota hands a rabbit keeper the deepest winter in the lower forty-eight and a short, sticky summer, with long stretches of perfect rabbit weather on either side. Here is the honest shape of the year, from a lop’s point of view.
A handful of gentle habits carries a bunny happily from first frost to first frost.
- Give the bunny a settled indoor spot away from both the woodstove’s blast and the front door’s icy gusts, steady and mild wins every time.
- If any water lives in an unheated space, check it morning and evening through the cold months, because Minnesota ice does not wait around.
- When the humid stretch arrives, treat sticky days as hotter than they read and bring out frozen water bottles for the bunny to lounge against.
- Keep hay stored somewhere dry through the snowy months, since melting boots and damp entryways find their way to everything.
- Welcome the magnificent fall molt with a brush in hand, as the winter coat coming in is truly something to see.
For a deeper read, University of Minnesota Extension offers trustworthy small-animal guidance, and rabbit.org is the friendly reference we hand to every new rabbit family.
A little Minnesota spirit
The state that named a party after togetherness
Every state has a fair. Minnesota has the Great Minnesota Get-Together. That is not a slogan somebody focus-grouped, it is simply what the state fair is called, and we think it says something lovely about the place. Where other states brag about size or spectacle, Minnesota named its biggest tradition after the simple act of gathering, neighbors and farm families and city kids all wandering the same barns each late summer, admiring one another’s animals.
A state that treasures togetherness is a state built for a Holland Lop, because togetherness is the whole job description. A lop is not a pet you keep so much as company you keep, a small woolly presence at the edge of every family evening, flopped by the couch while the snow piles up and the cocoa goes around. The way we see it, Minnesota has been rehearsing for a house rabbit all along, and the Holland Lops for sale in Minnesota from our little rabbitry are happy to oblige.
Minnesota named its biggest tradition after togetherness. A lop is togetherness with ears.
