Rhode Island
Darling Holland Lops for Sale in Rhode Island
Rare Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed Vienna-marked Holland Lops for sale in Rhode Island, from the bay to the beaches.
Little lop ears, a round soft body, and blue eyes clear as sea glass. That is what we raise.
Rhythm & Bleu is an American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) registered rabbitry in Northeast Oklahoma near Tulsa, raising Blue-Eyed Whites and blue-eyed Vienna-marked kits in colorful coats. A full pedigree travels with every kit.
Ours are handled every day from birth in the thick of family life, used to the vacuum, the dishes, doors, and a toddler mid-tantrum, so they leave as sociable and sweet as a rabbit can be. Rhode Island families bring one home by ground or by air, and pickup here is always free.
Why the eyes
Holland Lops for Sale in Rhode Island, and What Makes Ours Different
Blue eyes are the slow part of this work.
They come from the Vienna gene, which is recessive, so both parents have to carry it before a single kit can show it. Only a share of any litter does, and it takes years of patient pairings to get there.
Our Holland Lops for sale in Rhode Island are pedigreed, raised in the middle of a full house, and pet and talked to constantly. We breed for temperament first, then type, then color.
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Getting home
Three ways home to Rhode Island
Three ways to bring one of our Holland Lops for sale in Rhode Island home, and the first one is free.
Meet in person
always open
Pickup at our home costs nothing but a day on the road. It is a long way from the smallest state, but families do it, and Old Route 66 runs practically past our door if you want to make a road trip of it.
You meet your bunny, ask everything face to face, and she rides home in somebody’s lap.
Ground transport
from, route by route
Drivers running this far northeast come into Providence and reach the whole state from there.
Once a driver reaches the state, nowhere in Rhode Island is far. The wait is really for one of those planned trips to swing through southern New England near your town, since transporters keep fixed calendars. 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 a single calm travel day, and a small state makes the last mile short. We set up the flight and handle the arrangements.
We fly into Providence, with Boston an easy alternative just up the line. T.F. Green sits right in the middle of Rhode Island, so wherever you are, the drive from the gate is a short one, and Boston opens up more flight times when you want the choice. 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 Rhode Island requires
Rhode Island keeps a tidy rule, and we handle it for you. The state asks that any animal coming in travel with a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection, a CVI, and rabbits are counted in. It also likes to see permanent identification, and here is the happy part: every one of our kits already leaves home with an ear tattoo, so that box is checked before she packs a bag.
We book the appointment, handle the exam, and have the CVI in hand before she travels, all for $100. A CVI stays good for 30 days, so we time it to your trip and leave you nothing to chase down.
If your kit flies, the airline asks for that certificate regardless, so it is already folded into the $650, with nothing extra to arrange.
Rhode Island publishes its rules through the DEM Division of Agriculture, Animal Health Section, reachable at 401-222-2781.
Before you decide
What people ask us
What are you promising us?
Your kit goes home in fine condition, well socialized and handled every day of her life here. 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 Rhode Island are pedigreed and handled every day from birth, so they leave here as sociable and sweet as a rabbit can be.
Which airport should we use?
Providence, almost always. T.F. Green sits right in the center of the state, so no matter where you live, the drive from the gate is short.
When you would rather have more flight times to choose from, Boston is an easy run up the line. Tell us your plans and we will settle it together.
Does my rabbit need paperwork for Rhode Island?
A little, and we take care of it. Rhode Island asks that animals entering the state carry a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection, so we arrange one for $100 and time it to your travel, since it stays good for 30 days. The state also wants permanent ID, and every kit already leaves here ear-tattooed, so that part is done.
Flying? The certificate is required by the airline anyway, so it is already inside the $650, nothing extra for you to do.
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. Once a run reaches southern New England, Rhode Island comes together quickly.
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 Rhode Island
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
Rhode Island runs a lively 4-H rabbit program and county fair circuit for such a small map, and a local all-breed club is the fastest road to a mentor, a show table, and someone who will answer the phone when you have a question.
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
Rhode Island sits in ARBA District 7, the New England district, and being the smallest state has its perks: nearly every sanctioned show in southern New England is a short drive, whether it is here at home or just over a border.
Shows and fairs worth a visit
Rhode Island’s country fairs keep their small-animal barns busy through late summer, from Washington County up to the northern 4-H fair, and they are fine places to spend a day talking rabbits with people who keep them.
For sanctioned rabbit shows near you, the ARBA club search keeps the current list.
The ups and downs
Owning a Holland Lop in Rhode Island
Rhode Island is an easy place to keep a rabbit, with one season to plan around.
The ocean keeps the edges off the calendar, so winters, while real, run milder than they do inland, and good rabbit vets are never far in a state you can cross in under an hour.
The catch is high summer. July and August turn humid off the water, and damp heat is the one weather a lop minds.
Indoors settles it completely. She passes the muggy stretch in the cool beside you and never notices, comfortable through the grayest, rawest February just the same.
Rabbit-savvy care
Finding a good vet in Rhode Island
A rabbit needs a veterinarian who sees rabbits often, and even a small state manages a few good ones.
Full disclosure: I am out in Oklahoma and have never set foot in any of these clinics. Call ahead, check they’re taking new rabbit patients, and make sure the fit feels right.
The 24-hour option
Ocean State Veterinary Specialists
In East Greenwich, this is the state’s round-the-clock emergency and specialty hospital, and its exotic team, ER doctors included, is trained to treat rabbits when something cannot wait.
South County
Wickford Veterinary Clinic
A North Kingstown practice with thirty years of exotic work, known around here as the reliable place to have a rabbit spayed or neutered, and handy for the whole southern half of the state.
Greater Providence
Hill & Harbour Veterinary Center
Serving the Providence side from East Greenwich, this clinic welcomes rabbits and other small mammals for everyday wellness and care.
One more resource
Not near any of the three? The House Rabbit Society keeps a vet directory reaching across Rhode Island, maintained by people who take their own rabbits to the clinics they list. Your county 4-H rabbit leader is worth an ask too, since they always know which vet the show families call first.
Seasonal care
Caring for a Holland Lop through a Rhode Island year
Rhode Island’s weather comes off the water, mild at the edges and humid in the middle of summer. Our Holland Lops for sale in Rhode Island settle in beautifully once the routine covers the warm months and the raw ones both.
A handful of steady habits carries a bunny comfortably right around the calendar.
- Through July and August, go by the feels-like number rather than the thermometer, because humidity off the bay decides how hard a day lands on a rabbit.
- Keep a rotation of frozen water bottles going all summer so a cool one is always waiting to be leaned against.
- Come January, check her water twice a day, since a bottle can freeze in a cold room while the house still feels perfectly fine to you.
- Sea air keeps everything faintly damp, so store hay up off the floor in something that closes and keep her bedding dry.
- Nor’easters take the power out here, so keep a battery fan, spare water, and warm blankets set aside for a long dark evening.
For deeper reading, URI 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 Rhode Island history
The rabbit that would not breed like a rabbit
Everyone knows the saying about how rabbits breed. Rhode Island has spent more than a decade learning how wrong it can be.
The New England cottontail, this region’s only native rabbit, had declined so far that conservationists set out to breed it in captivity and give the wild population a hand. It proved stubbornly difficult, only about half the pairings produced kits at all. Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence became the first place anywhere to work it out, and it now sends young cottontails to Patience Island, an uninhabited stretch of brush in Narragansett Bay, to rebuild a wild colony from scratch.
We take breeding seriously too, in our own small way. Our Holland Lops for sale in Rhode Island are bred deliberately for the rare Vienna gene, pedigreed, and raised by hand from the nest box, because a good rabbit is never an accident.
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