Plush Lop is a breed of domestic rabbit with two varieties: Miniature[1] and Standard.
Since her aim was to create the perfect pet, personality was of great importance in Devie's breeding program.
Miniature Plush Lops today have playful, friendly personalities, but they are also docile enough to allow their owners to hold them for reasonably long periods of time.
Standard Plush Lops were developed in Australia by Christine Toyer, starting in the early 1990s.
There is also a Canadian Plush Lop,[citation needed] with the "curly" variant rex fur.
It has a more fully arched conformation than the other rex lops, is very bold and friendly, and excels at rabbit agility.
The breed does not carry the dwarf gene and so tends to be four to six pounds in adult weight.
Working Standard for the Canadian Plush Lop [source: document approved by the Breeders' Group in 2008, updated 2011][citation needed] The Canadian Plush Lop Working Standard
Canadian Plush Lops should be judged without handling, except for preliminary examination and coat evaluation.
General type is best viewed by stepping back from the judging table and allowing the rabbit to pose and move naturally.
The body is to be of medium length, with width gradually increasing from the shoulders to the rump.
Ideally this animal should be handled little and allowed to run on the table to assess correctness of the bounding motion.
Eyes large and preferably dark in all varieties but may be blue-gray in dilute Sable Points.
Faults – overly large muzzle; eyes too small to balance the rest of the face; large dewlap; overly flat, round face (too short foreface, Holland Lop appearance).
Faults – bowlegs in forelimbs; big or wide forefeet; forelimbs too short for the animal to sit up well; crooked or twisted legs; hind feet too narrow, too short to support the powerful hindquarters, or not parallel.
Fur – soft and lustrous coat with as much wave and curl as possible, especially around the head and neck.
This is a curly haired breed, and the genetic factors responsible seem to increase their influence with each adult molt.
Junior animals may exhibit a cottony soft or in some cases even a harsher texture, straighter, and occasionally with prominent guard hair, which all but disappears in the first adult molt around one year of age.
Faults – in adults, guard hair prominent, protruding from coat to the extent that it interferes with the soft lustrous feel.
Shaded animals are to show a gradual transition of a basic color, usually from dark to light.
All broken pattern animals must have a nose marking, eye circles, and colored ears.
Disqualification (general character) – Non-lopped, non-rexed, no curls visible in adult, no arch to body, overly fearful or vicious temperament.
Note the following are absent in this breed: agouti, REW, steel, harlequin, Dutch marking, Vienna blue, and silvering genes.