Getting a Holland Lop to Oklahoma

Three to four days, routed through the southwest.

Storm season is worth planning around. A rabbit in a garage during a tornado warning is not somewhere you want it to be.

What the Oklahoma climate means for a Holland Lop

Hot summers, and humid enough that the heat is harder on a rabbit than the thermometer suggests. Winters swing hard. Indoors is the sane answer.

What Oklahoma owners should know

Oklahoma gets both extremes and gets them fast. Summer highs sit in the high nineties with enough humidity to make them dangerous for a rabbit, and winters swing hard in the other direction. Storm season is the local factor nobody thinks about until it matters: a rabbit in a carrier in a storm shelter is a stressed rabbit, and it is worth having practised getting it into the carrier before the sirens go off. Oklahoma State runs a veterinary programme and the two major metros have exotics coverage. Rural Oklahoma does not, particularly.

Common questions

What should Oklahoma buyers plan for?

Storm season, and it is the thing nobody thinks about until it matters. A rabbit in a carrier in a storm shelter is a stressed rabbit, and it is worth practising getting it into the carrier before the sirens go off.

Is Oklahoma heat dangerous for rabbits?

Yes. Summer highs sit in the high nineties with enough humidity to make them genuinely dangerous. Indoors is the only sane answer between June and September.

Before you buy

Two things are worth reading first, and both are the sort of thing a seller would rather you did not think about until after the sale.

• How long they actually live. Seven to fourteen years.
• What the first year actually costs. The rabbit is about a quarter of it.

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