Delivered to Rhode Island
Netherland Dwarf Rabbits for Sale in Rhode Island
Netherland Dwarfs, 1.5 to 2.5 lb full grown, the smallest rabbit we raise, raised indoors in Bakersfield, California and delivered to Rhode Island by USDA certified ground pet transport. $250 for bucks and does alike.
If you have been searching for Netherland Dwarf Rabbits in Rhode Island and keep coming up empty, start here. We are Arlen Rabbitry in Bakersfield, California, and distance is the part we have solved: a USDA certified pet transport service runs your bunny to you by road in a climate-controlled vehicle. If you would rather do the driving, come and collect and meet the whole litter while you are at it. $250 for bucks and does alike.
Questions we get about getting a bunny to Rhode Island
Who actually does the driving? A USDA certified pet transport service. They carry live animals for a living, in a climate-controlled vehicle, and they stop regularly for water and a check.
Is my bunny ever flown? No. Road the whole way, every time. Nothing of ours goes in a cargo hold.
What does it cost? Quoted for your address rather than off a chart, and you are told before you commit.
How is the date set? Around the weather on the route. We would rather move a run than send a rabbit into heat or snow.
Can I just come and get it? Yes, and you are very welcome to.
Getting to Rhode Island: how long, and the drive if you prefer
By transport, from two days. Rhode Island is 2,800 to 3,050 miles out, 4 days on the road with the stops counted in. Small state, long drive. Cold is fine; a storm stopping traffic is what we avoid.
By your own car, about 48 to 53 hours. That is two to three days each way with overnight stops, and families do it every year. The advantage is simple: you see the litter, you pick the one that comes to you rather than the one that photographed best, and nobody else carries your bunny home. Collection from us is free.
Getting a Netherland Dwarf to Rhode Island
Rhode Island is 2,800 to 3,050 miles from us, 4 days on the road. The run is handled by a USDA certified pet transport service, in a climate-controlled vehicle with regular stops for water and a check. Your bunny goes by road the whole way: never flown, and never shipped as cargo.
What this breed's size means for the journey. A Netherland Dwarf is the easiest of the four to move. It travels in a small carrier, it eats little on the road, and it copes with a long journey better than the heavier breeds because there is simply less animal to keep cool.
Rhode Island weather, and this breed
Small state, long drive. Cold is fine; a storm stopping traffic is what we avoid.
Being small, a Netherland Dwarf sheds heat more efficiently than a Mini Lop, which makes summer travel less fraught. The short face is the offsetting factor though, so we still run the southern legs at night.
Netherland Dwarfs ready for Rhode Island now
Raised indoors and handled daily. If one of these has gone by the time you write, ask and we will tell you honestly what is coming rather than take a deposit against a maybe.
Keeping a Netherland Dwarf in New England
Handles New England cold better than its size suggests, but it is the breed most likely to be affected by a draught, and old New England housing has draughts. Site the pen carefully and the winter is straightforward. A long indoor season needs more enrichment for this breed than for the lops.
Size. 1.5 to 2.5 lb full grown, the smallest rabbit we raise. Care. The short face means dental alignment is worth watching properly: check the front teeth monthly and get any misalignment seen early. Otherwise low maintenance, with a short coat that needs almost nothing.
What it gets mistaken for. Confused with a young Holland Lop, because a Holland at eight weeks is about the adult size of a Netherland Dwarf. The ears settle it: Dwarfs stand upright, Hollands lop. Everything about the Netherland Dwarf.
The other three breeds, also delivered to Rhode Island
Same journey, same price, different rabbit. Worth comparing before the distance matters.
- Holland Lops for sale in Rhode Island, about 2 to 4 lb full grown
- Mini Lops for sale in Rhode Island, 4.5 to 6.5 lb full grown
- French Lops for sale in Rhode Island, 10 lb and up full grown
What arrives with your Netherland Dwarf
A care sheet written for this breed rather than for rabbits in general, enough of the food it is already on to change over across a week, and its date of birth and parentage in writing. The full list.
Have a vet in mind before it travels to Rhode Island. Rabbits need a vet who actually sees rabbits, and that is worth checking in advance rather than in an emergency.
Nearby states we deliver to
- Netherland Dwarfs for sale in Massachusetts, 3 to 4 days
- Netherland Dwarfs for sale in Connecticut, 4 days
- Netherland Dwarfs for sale in New York, 4 days
The rest of New England
- Netherland Dwarfs in Massachusetts
- Netherland Dwarfs in Connecticut
- Netherland Dwarfs in New Hampshire
- Netherland Dwarfs in Vermont
- Netherland Dwarfs in Maine
Before you decide
- Netherland Dwarfs by state, all 48
- Buck or doe, which matters more than colour
- What the first year costs
- What comes home with your rabbit
- Sales policy and deposits
- What families have said
Ask about a Netherland Dwarf for Rhode Island
Tell us whereabouts in Rhode Island you are and whether you want a buck or a doe, and we will give you the price, the transit time and an honest view of when it could travel.