Hand-raised Holland Lops in Tucson.

Send me a note or a text with a bit about your situation. I'll tell you honestly which rabbit fits, including if the answer is none right now and you should wait for the next litter. Then we set a time and you come and meet them, and that visit is free and there's no booking fee.

If one's right for you, $100 holds them and comes off the price. Rabbits open for reservation at four weeks old and go home at eight. At pickup we go through the care sheet together and you leave with everything on the list above.

Every rabbit's price is listed on its own photo above, and that number is what you pay. No appointment fee, no no-show fee, nothing added at pickup. Second rabbit is 20% off.

What the price covers is eight weeks of daily handling before the rabbit is old enough to leave, a health check you watch me do, two weeks of the food they're already eating, a written care sheet, and my phone number for as long as you have them. Prices differ between rabbits because colour and temperament differ. The rarer colours, a blue-eyed white in particular, sit at the top of the range simply because far fewer are born that way.

You can find a cheaper rabbit. You'll find plenty on classifieds for under a hundred. What you're paying the difference for is a rabbit that's already comfortable being picked up, and someone who answers the phone at month seven.

$100 holds a rabbit, and it comes straight off the price. Once it's paid I take that rabbit off the list so nobody else can claim it, and it's yours until pickup.

Rabbits open for reservation at four weeks old. Before that I won't take your money. At two weeks I can't tell you for certain what sex a kit is and the coat is still settling, so anything I said would be a guess dressed up as a fact. Four weeks is the point where I can describe a rabbit to you honestly.

The deposit is non-refundable, and I'll be straight about why: holding a rabbit means turning other people away, so if someone changes their mind late I've lost weeks of interest on that animal. But it isn't lost money. It's transferable. If your circumstances change, or you meet them and click with a different one, I'll move your $100 to another rabbit or a future litter.

Three things get you a full refund instead, no argument:

• The rabbit becomes ill or doesn't make it while still in my care.
• I'm the one who cancels, for any reason.
• The rabbit isn't what I told you it was. If the sex is wrong, the colour is materially different from the listing, it isn't the rabbit you reserved, or it doesn't pass the health check we do together at pickup, you get your money back.

One honest note on that last one, because four weeks is early. Colour and markings can still develop between reservation and pickup, and a five week old rabbit is not finished becoming itself. When you reserve I'll tell you plainly what's already certain and what could still change, and you'll get photos the whole way through so nothing at pickup is a surprise. Normal growing up isn't grounds for a refund. Being wrong about something I stated as fact is.

How to pay: Zelle, Apple Pay, or cash. The balance is due at pickup and cash is easiest for that.

If you're local and would rather not send money to someone you haven't met yet, which is a reasonable instinct, come and meet them first and pay the deposit in cash while you're here. That's genuinely fine by me and it's what I'd suggest. Visits are free and there's no booking fee, so nothing is at stake until you've decided. For anyone further out, I'll send written confirmation the moment a deposit lands, with the rabbit's name, the amount, and the date, so you have it on record.

No, and I'd think twice about anyone who says yes. Rabbits taken early have immature digestive systems, and weaning enteritis, the most common cause of death in young rabbits, is overwhelmingly a problem of leaving the mother too soon.

I'll send photos and video the whole way through so the wait is easier. But the date doesn't move.

No. First-timers are often who I enjoy working with most, because they actually read the care sheet. I'll say plainly that rabbits aren't low-maintenance starter pets. They need space, daily attention, and a vet who treats exotics. If that works for you, they're one of the best animals you can live with.

Not much. Holland Lops are short-coated, so a brush once a week is plenty most of the year, a little more often when they moult. Nails every few weeks. They keep themselves clean, so no bathing, which is stressful for a rabbit and genuinely dangerous.

Indoors, particularly here. Rabbits handle cold far better than heat, and sustained temperatures above the mid-80s are dangerous. A Tucson summer isn't survivable in a hutch. An indoor pen with daily supervised run-around time is what I recommend.

Yes, for rabbits I've bred. One rabbit is $20 a day, dropping to $15 a day after the first week. A bonded pair sharing a pen is $30 a day, dropping to $22. Hay, pellets, clean bedding and the same daily handling they grew up with are all included, and I'll send you photos while you're gone.

It's priced by the day rather than the week on purpose, so you only pay for the days you're actually away and you can extend without renegotiating anything.

Why only my own rabbits: RHDV2 is circulating in Arizona's wild rabbit population again this year. It survives months in the environment, travels on shoes and clothing, and it's frequently fatal. Taking in outside rabbits would put every rabbit here at risk, including the babies waiting to go to their homes. A closed property is the same reason I can tell you with confidence that your rabbit was healthy the day you collected it.

If your rabbit came from somewhere else, ask me anyway and I'll point you toward a Tucson boarder or exotic vet who takes outside rabbits.

Get in touch and we'll work it out together. Tell me roughly where you are and I'll tell you honestly what I think is easiest on the rabbit. Sometimes that's meeting somewhere in the middle, sometimes it makes more sense for me to drive to you, and if you're close by then straightforward pickup is usually the gentlest option.

I'd rather sort this out with you directly than post a blanket rule, because the same drive in October and in July are not the same trip for a rabbit. Heat is the one thing I'll be firm about. If a journey isn't safe on the day, we move it, and I'll say so.

Call me. Day three or year three, I'd rather hear early than after it's serious.

Here's what you're standing on. Before any rabbit leaves, we do the health check together at pickup: ears, teeth, eyes, weight and coat, in your hands, not mine. If it doesn't pass, it doesn't go home and you get your deposit back in full. And once they're home, my number doesn't expire. If your rabbit seems off, you call me first and we work out together whether it's a Tuesday thing or a vet-today thing.

I'd rather promise what I can actually deliver than print a guarantee with fine print. What I can deliver is a rabbit that was healthy when you took it, and me, reachable, for the whole of its life.