A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LIONHEAD RABBIT,

There has been a lot of speculation on how the Lionhead rabbit began, I have spent hours researching the beginnings of this breed. I believes that the precursor of the Lionhead dates back decades earlier than once believed. Another widely held belief says they originated in Belgium in a litter of bunnies that was the result of the crossbreeding of the Swiss Fox and a Belgian Dwarf. Then crosses to a smaller wool type breed was also included in the crossbreeding. Some sources list the Jersey Wooly but its probably the Dwarf Angora (in the USA we have no Dwarf Angora so the name Jersey Wooly was added here) Later the breed was imported into England where continued crossbreeding of small breed rabbits and additional wool breeds were made. This crossbreeding made in Europe and in England created the current EUROPEAN LIONHEAD RABBIT. The one thing that we know for sure is that the result of the Lionhead, however they came about, was the first true gene mutation since the 1930's.