My hilarious dog

On Sunday, Norm, our dad took River(our Shih Zhu) up to Ucuelet to live with him while he is working up there. I guess it was a bit of a rough start as she was pretty nervous about going up there and didn't know what was happening. All went well though and they went to bed early. She wouldn't eat much dinner but did go outside to the bathroom etc. So they went to bed, went to sleep and when they woke up this morning our dad noticed River ate all her food in the night! He praised her(she is not a good eater to begin with) and fed her some more(only the good quality food of course for my dogs ;)
Anyway, so after his coffee and breakfast he got his work boots on.. Or tried.. They were full of dog food! In the night she carried every kernel from her dish and put them in his boots!!!!

I thought that was just hilarous and had to share! Pics attached of River last Summer. : )

Re-evaluating the Jersey Herd(and potential VIRBA show hopefuls)

I'm doing this to fill my blog space, as I don't really know what to write about. And also, so I can see what I might have to show for VIRBA(first show since October Mid February) Rabbits * are potential show ones for VIRBA

Senior bucks:

*-GC Jentle's Hero- Blue
-GC RH's Tonka - Smoke Pearl Marten
*-Pharoah's Jet- Black 1 leg, hoping to grand him this year
-Just Hoppin's Apollo- opal - once I get a replacement agouti buck, he will be up for sale, nice buck just needs a little more head and ear, I think.
-Leapin' Butch- Sable point
-Leapin' Munchkin- Sable point
*Leapin' Snookums
Leapin' Black Prince- Black

Junior Bucks:
*Leapin' Rock N Roll- Tort
*Leapin' Heza SMooth Cowboy-Sable point(maybe blue point?)
*Leapin' Honky Tonk- Sable Marten- For sale
*Leapin' Too Hot 4 U- Sable point

Senior does:
B-Mac's Canadian Mist-N-Cream- Pointed White
MG's Decoy- Pointed White- if she didn't take possibly show?
MG's Anky- Chin
MG's Jetta- Black
*Schultz's Secret Weapon- Siamese Sable
Leapin' Mona Lisa- Blue tort
Leapin' Maggie Mae- Smoke pearl
Jentle's Tikki- Sable Marten
Leapin' Hot Flashez- Blue tort
Leapin' Mara- Smoke pearl
Leapin' Chantilly Lace- Sable point
Leapin' Foxy Lady- REW
Leapin' Ginger Rogers- Blue Tort
Leapin' Panache- Smoke pearl
MBR Allison- Chestnut agouti


Jr does:
*Leapin Mikhala- black
*Leapin' Fantasy- Smoke pearl
*Posey's Willow- Black
Posey's Heidi- Black
*Leapin' Miss Sierra- Sable point

So around a dozen, I'm counting 12 but a couple of senior does are nice and would like to show them but would rather get babies so will see as the show approaches. Total animals = 32 :- )

When life is out of balance

So, recently, we've been finding our life is way off balance. For some people it might work, but everyone is different so for us it was just too off balance. We were finding ourselves being pulled into the rabbit aspect of our life so much so that everything else was failing. By the time we fed, watered, cared for 150 rabbits plus organized shows, clubs, answered questions, website upkeep, blog entries, shipments, sales we were spending 75% of our time doing this. (75% being not overally generous somedays it was almost 100%).

Our goal for this year is to get our life much more in balance. For us, that many rabbits was becoming more of a job that we weren't/aren't being paid for, and was becoming more and more demanding and "why are we doing this?"

I don't know about you, but I want to go into the barn and be able to spend time with my rabbits not just clean, feed, clean some more. I know my Uncle says we have the cleanest barn he's seen(he worked for another rabbit breeder who also shows) and said we were being too picky. Well lately we couldn't even keep on top of everything. Grooming all those Jerseys(mainly babies/jrs) the seniors don't need to be groomed, keeping on top of nails, cage tags, health checks, breedings, weaning litters, culling and figuring out who to keep and sell and butcher, regular cleaning(pans, floors, wire scrubbing, hair deplucking off wire. Then we got the 2nd barn and for the first month it was going okay and then it was like AHH!!!! This is too much! So our life is going to be much more in balance now. I have 31 woolies I am keeping, and Cristina has 45 Mini lops(was 39 plus 17 babies to go through) we went through all the babies and picked our keepers and now it is 45 total plus one litter of 3 less then 2 weeks old. Much easier!

Now that our life is going to be more in balance we are hoping to do some extra activities. We've started painting and rug hooking(not free painting for me, paint by number is just fine lol!!)(I'm NOT an artist) in fact I'm terrible, but I can admit it AND enjoy it : )
I'd like to start swimming again and we both have plans for better eating and dieting. We'd also at least I would like to find my own place by the summer(it is so hard with dogs/cats) that is my biggest obstacle. And get set up with work. So many things but so much better balance!

2 silkie guinea pigs

Here's the 2 silkies, and Jester the Harlequin Mini rex looking for a great pet home.

Hollands for sale

Blue Otter brood doe. Has some shoulder faults, and color is a bit washed out but nice and smooth with a good head and ear/crown. $30.00





Blue Otter showier doe- super short and tiny! Tight crown(right now ears are either straight up or out to the side/airplane). Would be a good start to Otters, though. $35.00




Creator's Jericho- Blue Senior buck- super sweet buck with a great head and smooth body! Ears are folded for my liking but nice buck otherwise! $50.00




Fuzzy Peach's Kikiee Black Senior doe out of GC Sunny's Ted(Pitney lines) and Rudolph's Miranda
Pic coming this week, mom to Blue otter babies above though. Throws nice babies! Can be bred to a Tri color buck, or Jericho free of charge if I knew before tomorrow(as the tri buck leaves tomorrow).

Huge long blog- major herd reduction!

We are so busy these days with non-rabbit activities that we've decided to majorly cut back on the number of rabbits we have at least for right now. We've gone from around 150 rabbits early December to 100 now, and would like to get down to 75ish......50 would be great but that isn't likely to happen! Mainly herd cut backs on our smaller breeds, or just cutting back on lines/colors or too many bucks/does. I have too many JW bucks and Cristina has too many ML does :- )

Here's the list...

Hollands- we were going to work on Otter Hollands but find we do not have time for this right now(we're working with friends on this project). They have first dibs on who they want but I know they are also tight for cage space. With us it isn't even cage space as the lower barn is 90% empty(about 20 empty holes if not more!) but time is just not in our favour : )

Fuzzy Peach's Kikiee Black Senior doe - $20, proven excellent mom out of GC Sunny's Ted X Rudolph's Miranda
Creator's Jericho- Blue Senior buck- $50- out of Miss Mustache mom to Cobalt a really nice blue doe we had.
Following out of Kikiee above and Creator's Magnum
Blue Otter Jr doe- Show $35
Blue Otter Jr doe- Breeding- $35
Back Otter Jr buck- Breeding/Show $35
Black Otter Jr doe- Breeding $35
Also have a Tri buck and Black doe who are pending ? $25 each if not already sold.
Mini rex:
Fuzzy Peach's Jester- Harlequin Senior doe- pet home, awesome personality!
KT's Cezanne- Broken black senior doe out of KT's rabbitry in Oregon, fantastic lines. Big girl though! Prefer a pet home/retirement home but would consider the right breeding home. Super personality, has had 3 litters- 2 of 8, and one of 5.
Red Jr buck- out of GC Hangtown's Fireball X Hangtown's RH26- pending?
Mini lops:

Velotta's Keaton - Opal Sr buck. Out of GC Velotta's Waltor X GC Velotta's
Renee. Breeding/Show. All Velotta lines. 2 GC legs. $50

Velotta's Posey - Silver Tipped Steel Sr doe. Out of GC Velotta's Waltor X
GC Kitsemble's Ella. Proven breeding doe, excellent mom! 2 GC legs,
Registered Red/White. Kitsemble/Velotta lines. $50

Posey's Armoni - Broken Chestnut Sr doe. Out of GC Velotta's Adson X GC
Velotta's Olivia. Breeding/Show doe. All Velotta lines. $40

Posey's Abby - Broken Steel Sr doe. Out of Velotta's Sam X GC Kitsemble's
Ella. Show/Breeding doe. $65

GC Velotta's Olivia - Broken Chestnut Sr doe. Out of GC Velotta's Dodger X
GC Velotta's Francie. 5 GC legs, proven doe excellent mom. 2 yrs old. $150

GC Velotta's Cattabrie - Chestnut Sr doe. Out of GC C.C's Jack X GC
Velotta's Francie. 10 GC legs/BIS win. Proven doe, excellent mom. 3 yrs old,
still producing great! $100

Velotta's Chloe - Chinchilla Sr doe. Out of GC Velotta's Dodger X GC
Velotta's Cattabrie. Registered Red/White/Blue with Gold Star. Excellent
mom! $50

Black, Opal and Chestnut Jrs (2 does, 1 buck) out of GC Sunny's Audrey X GC
Hutholm's Broken Opal buck. Some very nice Juniors! 1 on hold for now. $40
ea.

Milkhouse's Summer - Chestnut Sr doe. Out of Milkhouse's Desi X GC Desurra's
Sietta. All Desurra lines, with a bit of Velotta's. Excellent mom! $60

Mitchell's Quentin- Broken Chestnut senior buck 2 GC legs, produced 2 super daughters for us and we are getting fantastic grandkids. Super sweet personality, still breeding. Will be 5 in May. Otherwise he will live out his days here if we can't find him the perfect retirement/pet occasional breeding home. Still breeding just fine! Doesn't seem arthritic this winter, has an ez mat regardless but he likes to throw his toy around and he LOVES food ;) Free to the right home... references may be required!

Fuzzy lops: Selling last 5- It does look like most are spoken for now. I will repost as I know. The only one I can't remember on is Violet. Will update as I know

Leapin B52 Tort Senior buck 1 GC leg for BOS first time shown, 2nd in his class other show. Very nice buck with a fantastic body and head! $125
Amelia's Kyoko- Tort Senior doe- ELS RIKU X Mason's Louie- Hollands in the background. $30
Wilder's Violet- Siamese Sable jr doe, tight crown, good type, cute doe! $30

Jersey woolies:
Leapin' AOV buck- All that Jazz- out of Leapin' Black Prince X B-Mac's Canadian Mist-N-Cream PW. I got this buck in Laura's herd sell out, and his mom was rebred to the same buck for the 2nd time. I've kept back 4 of the 5 from that litter(all black) and will be selling something from there as well. This guy is going to wind up on the larger size, and be more breeding quality overall. He has a very nice head, super massive body. I just would like to see him shorter/showier. Nice pieces buck. Goes back to GC Jentle's Hero, PP's and Brian's lines, and B-Mac's and Ft's. $40

Leapin Honky tonk- Sable Marten Jr buck out of GC RH's Tonka X Jentle's Tikki- Cute buck with a super head, short ears and small cobby body will be tiny! $75
Leapin Siamese Sable Jr buck out of same cross as above. This guy is going to be teeny! He got chewed by mom before he was weaned(and could be weaned) so currently is more Netherland Dwarf looking(because of short hair) tiny cobby body with super tiny ears and a big fat head. Little dark in color. $50
Posey's Black Jr buck- out of Leapin Black Prince X B-Mac's Canadian Mist-N-Cream PW- cute buck with a very nice body, good head and ear as well. $50
I will be selling one of my 4 sable point bucks towards the summer, if interested in getting on the wait list for either : Leapin Butch, Leapin Munchkin, Leapin Sable point jr buck out of Mona Lisa X Snookums, or Leapin Too Hot 4 U please contact me.

Cavies:

Posey's a Little RNR- Golden agouti/Red/White Silkie boar- fantastic density, not fully pedigreed. $20
Posey's Mosaic- Mosaic Jr sow! Out of RNR above and a TSW sow who was out of dilutes. Is Black, Red, White and Lilac. $20 Have pics of both taken today.
Cages:

Leanne- you are first on the list since I wasn't able to organize a day to be available- December was nuts here. We moved rooms around and lost internet in the process when we unhooked the wrong thing and lost wireless and regular highspeed(not sure how!) got that sorted out, then the neighbours phone line something happened to there line which did something to our internet so it went down. So needless to say it was a crazy month with Christmas parties, Christmas, family, friends etc! I can make time next week for pick up of cages/rabbits though for anyone interested. Next week is pretty open- : )

4 hole 30 by 18 each hole $30
2 hole 24 by 15 each hole $15
2 hole 24 by 15 each hole $15
8 24 by 30 holes(singles) $10 per hole
2 hole- 18 by 24 - $10
5- 30 by 30 holes $15 each hole
2 hole 36 by 18- $15
White indoor pet cage- Free- stained bottom, and top is a little bent but would work for someone needing an emergency cage or a cavy cage etc. We've had it for years.

Black Indoor cage on wheels, ramp to top level. Had our pet New Zealand in here is about 3 1/2 feet long by 2 or 2 1/2 feet wide, and 4 feet high. Paid $65 for it. $35

2 hole French lop size carrier- would work for senior Mini lops or senior large breeds at shows. $30 Great condition

Metal feeders- Brianna you get these at VIRBA as I go through them again, please let me know again how many? :- ) Oh, we also have some nestboxes French lop size or meat rabbit size but would work for Mini lops as well if anyone wants some..... Have one that we paid $20 for in the US, would like $10 for it. Some free, and some $5 each.... First come first serve, the faster you can get them the more you can take for a good price :- )

I may also have one stacker for sale- I need to make a decision next week on it.... 4 holes- either way would be 24 by 24 whichever way I decided to go(if I sold it)


Stock can be held until the VIRBA show mid February but there is a fee of $5.00 a rabbit to cover the cost of feed/treats/hay until then. Discounts on multiple purchases...

k_c_lops@telus.net
Website is NOT updated, and won't be until later in the week most likely so if interested in new pics please e-mail us personally for more information and pictures. The website hasn't been updated for at least a few weeks, however, the pics of the rabbits on the website are recent within the last 3 months for almost all.

tini67p@telus.net

Sometimes some peoples e-mails bounce to the k_c_lops one not sure why, e-mail the other address if any problems. If you don't get a reply within 24 hours please e-mail us again!

Kim & Cristina
Happy New Year! Sorry this was so long... I warned at the beginning!!!

To sum up our trip to Calgary just after Christmas, was, it was great : )

Last Thursday we left Vancouver Island and took the 6:30 ferry to Vancouver. We caught the 620 bus to Airport Stn(which we thought would take us to the airport) but we had to catch another bus to the airport, then a shuttle from our hotel picked us up and took us back(by this time it was 1am and we had to be up by 7am to take our plane to Calgary). In the meantime another shuttle service dragged an empty airport cart beside it and caused lots of commotion! The hotel didn't have the credit card information for our step mom who paid for everything so we had to deal with that at 1:00 in the morning-- it was an eventful night! ;)

We got up last Friday morning, and got our flight to Calgary. We went shopping in Calgary, Banff and Canmore. We stayed at the 3 sisters resort village where our step mom lives. Because Selina, Cristina and I are sisters we had our pictures taken under the "3 sisters" sign : - ) We went up the Gondola in Banff, and checked out Lake Louise Chateau and Banff Springs Hotel(where they sell $50,000 coats!)

Selina was the major shopper going home with little money. I bought a couple of sweatshirts from American Eagle, a pair of pants from Old Navy and some souvenirs from the shops in Banff. Oh and a T-shirt from the Garage. We went to the Old spaghetti factory and had one heck of an awesome waiter! The streets in Banff were so packed New Years eve that it was $100 cover charge in the pubs!

We were going to go and do some outdoor activities(we saw the ice castle at Lake Louise) but everything was so expensive and us 3 girls prefer shopping anyway ;)

3 sisters village has a sauna, pool, hottub, the pool game and each house is over 2 million dollars a piece so we had a great time : ) We had our own suite too!

We went up to Chinamens peak and of course saw the gorgeous rocky mountains and a frozen over water fall.

It took almost 12 hours to get home yesterday because of high winds, turbulence in the air, and delays with flights and ferries but we made it! I won't be getting caught up on e-mails until next week.

Kim & Cristina

We will get back into blogging at some point, although I do know this year is going to met with many personal changes for me so I may not blog all that much. Not that I was very good at it before ;) Rabbit wise all is well. All those does that were due one had 2 DOA, one had a peanut, and the others did not take. Very unfair as those mini lops have no problems this time of year, lol!! Our barn is FULL of Mini's :- )

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