Naming

As you know, I have quite a few new bunnies.  Most of them I'm hoping to re-home, but a few I'm going to keep.

And well, when you're keeping an animal, you almost always name it...at least, I do :)

So here are the 3 Lop females I've recently received.  And I'm giving them their names now.  Sometimes it's hard at first for a name to stick, but I'm hoping these will click and work out very well for them :)

The first bunny is a female and she's actually the daughter of the female pictured next.  When I got both of them...and the male who's this spotted girl's father...they all came unnamed.  So for this spotted one, I wanted to giver her a good name.

When I name my rabbits, it's either because the rabbit just looks like it should have a certain name and so that's what it becomes.  Other times, I really do a lot of research to find the perfect name.  Quite a few times, it's more the meaning behind the name as to why I pick it.

And with this little girl, I did research.  I wanted to give her a unique name.  Maybe something to do with her spots.  But I couldn't find anything I liked.  So then, looking at her ears and how she likes to keep one up and one down, I actually looked up names that mean things like 'branch'.  Just because her ears remind me of branches.  Why? I don't know.  But they do.

So anyway, I looked through a few different options until I found my favorite one.  I ended up picking the name 'Livi' which means: Olive branch or Peace.  So there you have it, she's my little Livi :) 

Then I had Livi's mother...and when I got them, the woman who had previously owned them said she was the only mean one.  So clearly she wasn't going to get a name that meant anything terribly nice.  So I decided to go with her coloring.  She's a pure black and very beautiful.  Here were a few that I found... 

Adreana - meaning Dark.  Devony - meaning Dark Haired.  Ebony - meaning Dark Strength. Lisha - meaning Dark before Light.  and Mellca - meaning Dark.  

And with those options, I actually am having a hard time deciding.  However, I believe I'm going to go with Ebony, because it just sounds very beautiful to me and I believe it suits her the best.  She is a very lovely rabbit :) 

Here is the 3rd newest female that I'm keeping.  She came named...Elsa.  And her brother is Olaf.  Well, Olaf and Elsa were always together and this past Friday, Elsa had 4 babies!!! All are doing great :)  Surprisingly, there are no deformities, which I'm very pleased with :)  But I really just don't like the name Elsa that much and with her coloring...I just felt she looked like a Ginger, so that's her new name :)  Easy peasy! 

Her brother Olaf though...is up for sale.  He's not good about behind held and didn't mind scratching me at all...

Here he is too.  This picture of him was from the same day he scratched me.

Oh, and here's the other male I got.  He's the dad of Livi.  He's very sweet, but he's also up for sale. 

But I still have my 4 females to name.  I've got my Giant Male, Rhett Jr. named, which I'm glad about.  That was a very easy one :)

But those other females just aren't coming to me...I'm going to have to do some researching later today and try to get them named already.