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Another Milestone

I finally got news that Malaysian Rabbit Owners’ Association (2011) has been approved by the Registrar of Societies. To be honest, I have mixed feelings when I first got the news. I was glad that we now have an official association where all rabbit lovers can belong but at the same time, I hope to get committed people to join me in this new venture. I have so many ideas and plans on mind for this association and I hope they can materialized when the association operates fully.

“How do you run an association with a busy schedule?” is the top question on my mind right now and I believe it is the same with others who are interested in contributing. It is very simple. We need teamwork and support each other in their roles. It is more fun doing it as a team I believe.

I expect a lot of learning for the 1st year and as we go through it, I hope to have a few members to grow with me in this journey. Through that and hopefully, we can nurture some awesome leaders to continue leading the association. That is my vision at least.

Raising rabbits is a fun thing for most of us. I do not want to take the fun element out of this association. We shall run it through having fun and enjoyment. I strongly believe that when passion is placed into it, MROA will blossom and grow.

All I hope for now is to receive MROA 2011 establishment certificate and have our 1st AGM successfully to put everything in place so that we can move forward. I welcome all my Malaysian bunny friends especially those who have followed my blog thus far, to come forward and together we shall make this association a success.

Malaysia rabbits need a huge support group and MROA will be the platform for us to share, care, learn and live!

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”

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Apakah itu Breed Standard?

Hari ini, Tim nak bertulis pasal breed standard. Tujuannya adalah untuk membimbing rakan2 yang baru sahaja mendapat demam panas Show Rabbit ni. I rasa tidak puas hati kerana ramai yang tidak dapat mencengkam maksud sebenar bahasa dunia Arnab hias.

Setahu kawan2 sekalian, American Rabbit Breeders Association ataupun ARBA secara singkat adalah sebuah pertubuhan yang menjalankan tugas pentadbiran bagi semua urusan berkenaan dengan arnab dan tikus belanda (guinea pig). Di Amerika Syarikat terdapat banyak kelab2 di peringkat daerah dan juga negeri adalah dibawah naugan ARBA.

Apakah tugas-tugas ARBA sebenarnya yang paling penting untuk pengiat industri arnab?

Salah satu tugas ARBA yang paling penting dalam pendapat saya adalah penerbitan, pengiktirafan dan penjagaan Standard of Perfection ataupun Breed Standard. Apakah itu Breed Standard?

Untuk menjawab soalan di atas, I ada satu soalan bagi rakan2 sekalian. Kenapa ramai yang tertarik kepada Holland Lop, Netherland Dwarf dan baka2 yang lain? Apakah disebalik Holland Lop yang membuatnya Holland Lop selain daripada ciri2 biasa yang kita nampak pada seekor arnab Holland Lop?

Jawapannya senang, untuk menjadi seekor Holland Lop yang cantik, ia mesti mempunyai semua ciri2 yang telah dibentangkan di dalam Standard Of Perfection. Standard Of Perfection adalah dokumen yang ringkas lagi tepat yang menjelaskan setiap ciri2 yang perlu ada pada seekor Holland Lop. Misalnya dokumen ini membentangkan specifikasi arnab Holland Lop seperti dokumen yang datang bersama dengan mesin basuh baju yang you beli di kedai elektrik. Misalnya panduan mesin basuh menjelaskan berapa voltan yang diperlukan dan seperti panduan mesin basuh, Standard Of Perfection adalah panduan untuk semua 47 baka yang diiktiraf ARBA buat masa ini.

Saya mendapat ramai yang bertanya mengenai kualiti arnab Holland Lop. Kerana di pasaran ramai yang mengunakan perkataan2 yang “dalam” bagi mereka yang baru2 saja mengikuti demam denggi Arnab hias. Ramai yang turut ikut mengunakan istilah2 tanpa tahu-menahu maksud sebenarnya.

Ramai yang tahu 3 istilah yang paling terkenal di Malaysia sekarang – Pet Quality, Brood Quality dan Show Quality. Adakah you salah seorang yang terperangkap dalam istilah2 ini tanpa tahu maksud sebenarnya?

Dalam Breed Standard Holland Lop, salah satu daripada ciri yang telah dibentangkan adalah KEPALA. Ia telah dijelaskan dengan tepat bagaimana rupa bentuk KEPALA Holland Lop yang sepatutnya dan macam mana ia dinilai.

Dalam Bahasa English ia berkata:

HEAD-Points 24: The head is to be massive in appearance. When viewed from the front, the head is to have good width, beginning at the front of the crown and rounding down between the eyes to an extremely short and well filled muzzle. The cheeks should be full and round. The head is to be set high and close to the shoulders. The size of the head is to be in proportion to the body. The eyes should be bold and deep set.

Faults – Pinched muzzle, flat cheeks; narrowness between the eyes. Fault severely for narrow or long head, or head too small to balance with body.

Secara singkat, untuk KEPALA Holland Lop sahaja, penilai akan memberi 24 markah. Dijelaskan di sini bahawa kepala si Holland Lop mesti nampak BESAR. Jurang antara dua mata mestilah sebesar mungkin untuk mencapai kelihatan kepala yang BESAR.

Standard of Perfection bukan sahaja menjelaskan apa yang dikehendaki malah juga ciri2 yang tidak diingini. Istilah  FAULTS tidak bermaksud bahawa arnab itu kalah bertanding akan tetapi, hilang markah sahaja.

Istilah DISQUALIFIED ataupun DQ bermaksud arnab kalah bertanding terus tanpa penilaian. Ada sesetengah arnab diDQ kerana terdapat warna kuku yang tidak sepadan dengan warna arnab e.g. arnab warna solid berkuku putih.

Kenapa si Tim ni tulis pasal semua ini dan apakah perhubungannya dengan Pet, Brood dan Show Quality?

Terdapat banyak perhubungannya dan saya ingin menjelaskan supaya semua yang terkena dengan demam Arnab hias ni tidak ditipu semasa membeli arnab2 tersayang yang makin hari makin mahal digoreng harga pasarannya.

Pet Quality boleh dikatakan arnab yang tidak boleh dipamerkan ataupun yang terdapat terlalu banyak FAULTS ataupun yang telah DQ.

Brood Quality adalah arnab yang mempunyai faults tapi ada ciri2 yang boleh digunakan untuk generasi seterusnya. Brood adalah arnab pembiak yang boleh digunakan untuk mendapatkan arnab Show Quality. Lebih hampir mutu brood kepada show quality lebih baik untuk dijadikan induk.

Show Quality tidak perlu dijelaskan. Arnab2 ini mungkin ada faults tapi bila dinilai dan dipertandingkan, mungkin menang juga jika arnab lawan terdapat lebih faults nya dan hilang lebih banyak markah. Show Quality adalah arnab yang mempunyai ciri2 paling dekat dan mirip ciri2 yang dibentangkan di dalam panduan baka ataupun Breed Standards.

Saya berharap dengan menulis karangan yang panjang lebar ini dapat mendorong mereka yang demam panas supaya suhunya turun sedikit kalau tidak, suhu akan mencecah 100 darjah celsius pabila mengetahui sudah ditipu si penjual arnab yang semuanya Show Quality.

Bagi mereka yang berminat untuk membuat kajian yang mendalam lagi, sila dapatkan senaskah buku ARBA Standard of Perfection di http://www.arba.net di bawah:

ARBA 2011 to 2015 Standard of Perfection

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Happy Laborious Day!

The Holland Lop Rabbit Specialty Club (HLRSC) Nationals has just concluded in Columbus, Ohio. My dad and I was looking forward for this event since last year because we sent some beautiful Holland Lop paintings to be given out as awards at the Banquet. We have been keeping the secret for the Awards Chairperson, Mrs. Karen Bailey. Now that the awards has been awarded to all deserving winners, we would love to share pictures of these paintings. I really like each and everyone of them personally and I have since received many compliments on them.

I would like to thank everyone who appreciates my dad’s artwork especially to Mrs. Karen Bailey for commissioning my dad to work on these paintings. We would like to congratulate all winners and hope that the paintings won would be the centrepiece in your wonderful homes.

Broken Variety Award 1

Broken Variety Award 2

Broken Variety Award 3

Broken Variety Award 4

Solid Variety Award 1

Solid Variety Award 2

Solid Variety Award 3

Solid Variety Award 4

BOB/BOS award 1

BOB/BOS Award 2

And one of the award was offered up for Auction at the Banquet and the highest bid was USD 1000 !!!!!

Highest bid goes to Ms. Lisa!

And since today is Labor Day for us in Malaysia (not sure about other parts of the world), we are all spending time relaxing at home and the bunnies are all doing the same too. Don’t believe me?

SnoozeeEEeeeee.....

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Bunny Mansion

I just want to spend a little time recommending an awesome Bunny Mansion that all pet rabbits ought to have. We have also put it up on sale at TinyCritterz.com. I really love this cool little play pen with door and tray!

This is bunny heaven!

Approved!

To purchase please click HERE.

Here’s something that everyone might have been waiting for….

Little cutie....(not her real name)

Another Chunky....

Close up shot

Cute little guy...

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Why ARBA Sanctioned Show/Kenapa Pertandingan Iktiraf ARBA?

What is every Show breeder chasing after? They want to “GRAND” their rabbits. Meaning to say, they want to obtain a Grand Champion title/certificate for each of their rabbits. In order to obtain a Grand Champion certificate/title, a rabbit must first obtain 3 Grand Champion Legs in the form of a paper slip that looks like this.

Where can the rabbit obtain this GC Leg slip? ONLY at ARBA Sanctioned Shows that is.

How do you know for sure if the show is ARBA Sanctioned?

1. Check http://arba.net/Shows.htm website and look for the show in your area. This is the first check to know if the show is legitimate.

2. Ask the organizer for a Show Sanction Number. Every ARBA Sanctioned show comes with a Sanction Number.

So for those of you that came to me and ask if the show is ON, this is how you can check if it is really ON.

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Salam sejahtera kepada semua kawan2 dalam hobi arnab hias baka ARBA. Satu soalan yang ingin saya kemukakan kepada saudara serta saudari. Apakah yang anda impikan sebagai seorang pengiat hobi arnab hias? Jawapannya adalah untuk arnab anda digelar Juara. Untuk menjadi Juara, arnab pedigree anda mesti mendapatkan 3 Sijil Juara ARBA ataupun digelar Grand Champion legs dibawah 2 juri yang berlainan. Sekurang-kurangnya salah satu daripada 3 sijil tersebut mesti dianugerahkan semasa arnab tersebut mencecah umur 6 bulan keatas ataupun senior. Bagaimana rupanya Sijil Juara tersebut? – Sila ikuti link ini. Ia adalah sekeping slip biru yang mencatatkan nama dan tempat pertandingan. Slip ini hanya akan dianugerahkan kepada arnab tempat pertama kategori dan sekiranya terdapat sekurang-kurangnya 3 para peserta dan sekurang-kurangnya 5 ekor arnab di dalam kategori yang sama.

Dan dimanakah Sijil Juara ini dianugerahkan? Jawapannya adalah mana-mana Pertandingan yang Diiktiraf ARBA. Bukan senang untuk mendapatkan pengiktirafan untuk pertandingan. Pertandingan tersebut mesti di anjurkan oleh sebuah kelab yang telah diberi pengiktirafan ARBA (ARBA Charter).

Bagaimanakah anda boleh mengesahkan bahawa pertandingan adalah yang sah dan diiktiraf ARBA?

1. Semua pertandingan berdaftar dapat disahkan di http://arba.net/Shows.htm.

2. Satu lagi cara pengesahan adalah meminta para penganjur supaya mengemukakan Nombor Pengiktirafan ARBA. Setiap pertandingan ARBA diberi nombor pengiktirafan.

Bagi rakan-rakan yang tanya saya mengenai Show yang telah dibatalkan adakah pertandingan masih dianjurkan, jawapannya, yang telah dibatalkan tetap dibatalkan. Kenapa dibatalkan?

1. Kurang hangat sambutannya

2. Si sponsor kata ada masalah kewangan

3. Kelab yang menganjur belum diluluskan oleh Jabatan Pendaftaran Pertubuhan Malaysia. Yang ini paling bahaya. Jikalau pertubuhan menganjurkan pertandingan sebelum mendapatkan kelulusan Jabatan, semua ahli protem boleh didakwa di mahkamah dibawah “pertubuhan tidak sah”. Jangan2 arnab pulak perli kita yang dalam sangkar penjara.

Bagi pertandingan baru, saya juga kurang pasti sehinggalah semua maklumat yang sah dikemukakan. Jadi, silalah tanya Superintendent (Ketua Pertandingan) ataupun Show Secretary (Setiausaha Pertandingan) yang tersayang.

Semoga semua bergembira pada hari Pertandingan (jikalau sah)….

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Farewell MROC

I guess the spark and hope for an official rabbit club for rabbit owners in Malaysia has dimmed for me. Our 1st attempt to get it registered officially with Registrar of Society has been rejected and I do not wish to proceed with our 2nd attempt as I anticipate a very hectic career life in the next few weeks.

The wonderful gathering last weekend has opened up my eyes and made me realized that just having a gathering with rabbit lovers is good enough for me. I enjoy organizing it and I really enjoy seeing others having fun. My priorities and views have changed so much in just one evening with fellow rabbit friends. We will definitely organize more of such events but it will never be tied to any club. I prefer to have it this way which is hassle free.

With the heaviest of hearts, I have called for this unofficial little club to be dissolved. Any attempt to use MROC to organize any event is deemed unlawful in the court of law as MROC is NOT officially approved by Registrar of Society.

With immediate effect, I am no longer related to MROC directly or indirectly. As far as I know, we have not accepted any official memberships/fees.

I will continue raising beautiful Holland Lops as a hobby because they are all that matters to me right now and it was mainly because of them that I am making this decision. All the unnecessary time spent on the club matters is taking my precious time away from my beloved hobby.

I will also remain as the ARBA District 9 Representative unless I get new directions and commands from my boss himself. If you have any questions related to ARBA please feel free to contact me and I will be more than happy to assist you. By taking a step back from holding office in a rabbit club locally, I can observe the on goings of every rabbit club here in Malaysia without being bias towards my own club. I invite all those who wants to form a club or has formed a club to get in touch with me so that I can report events and happenings to ARBA. I will render my assistance to the best of my ability.

Thank you.

Goodbye MROC, curtains down…

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DOA 3101 & DOA 3249

UPDATE: Show Catalog taken down from website as at 11 p.m.

Dear readers,

I am appalled by my findings tonight and cannot help but to put forth the truth which I have always strived to do in my years of blogging about my beloved hobby. Yes, I am extremely straight forward and here goes.

As all of you may know, MROC has officially cancelled 2 ARBA Sanctioned Shows. The word Sanctioned or a simpler word, APPROVED is obtained through the ARBA by paying the Sanction Fee.

Unfortunately, I got a shock that certain parties has again released a Show Catalog which uses the 2 same sanction numbers that has been CANCELLED. DOA 3101 and DOA 3249 which are written on the “new” show catalog are the 2 sanction numbers given to the show that we have officially cancelled.

Please do not be mislead into thinking that this show is legitimate at this moment. Until you see different sanction numbers. TRUTH is TRUTH, LIE is LIE! There is no in betweens here.

Also note that some quarters has violated INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY by reusing the show catalog WORD for WORD and there has not been any official (written) request seeking for permission to reuse the show catalog that was prepared by me.

Filling up the form and sending your money only shows that you condone such an act of crime. Yes, PLAGIARISM is a CRIME!

Please be informed. Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Timothy Chan

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Lotsa Fun!

I am not sure about others but I really had a blast at our Rabbit Fun Show & Gathering event. The best part for me is being able to reach out to real people after so long of blogging. The people are simply amazing. I was a little worried in the beginning because we only had 1 guest arrived at 4.30pm and the event was scheduled to start at 5pm. We had about 26 guests in total and 10 rabbits competing for the top 5 spot.

The number of people in the crowd was just nice and we all fit snugly into XOXO Pets Store. The refreshment/dinner was superb. I just like how the entire small event went. The crowd really made all the preparation worth it! We even have live facebook updates!

Thank you so much to everyone who attending. We shall have more of these gathering soon!

Beautiful Doorgift

Show Table and Prizes

Food!

More food!

Nice Crowd

Talking while Symphony distracted attention!

Giving tips on making cage comfortable for rabbits

Really nice crowd to share the knowledge

Getting on the floor to show how to trance a rabbit so that a simple health check can be done

Sharing is caring

Nice bunny....

The game called "Judge The Bunny" where the guests and everyone present be the judge.

Nice Lionhead

Tabulating the score

This is 60% of the team. There's only 5 of us organizing this event. 1 day of planning, 5 days of work & promoting, 26 guests in total, 10 rabbits and 5 happy winners.

Winners and their rabbits

Everyone gets a certification of participation!

With some of the guests

Happy and tired at the same time

There were of course some glitches and we shall improvise on them later. I really enjoyed myself organizing this event and even happier to work with a small but efficient team. Great job to everyone involved!

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Fun Rabbit Show & Gathering

Fun Rabbit/Owner Gathering

Venue: XOXO Pets Store, The Strand Kota Damansara

Date: 23rd April 2011

Time: 5 pm to 8 pm

Door gifts for first 37 guests. Come on over!!!

Top 5 Ribbons up for grabs this Saturday

Looking really good!

5th Placing

With the right people and attitude, we got this whole thing going on even though we started planning beginning of this week! I am loving how fast we work between 4 of us. The communications are short and sweet but everyone’s hands are really efficient!

Prizes up for grabs! Somebunnies are going to be so happy!

Bunny approved!

I am sure you have heard of Cat and Dog owners gathering in the past. Perhaps a few occasional rabbit gatherings. This weekend, we’re doing just that – Chillin’ together with our Rabbits.

In the good spirit of Fellowship, Friendship & Fun, I would like to invite all rabbit lovers to come and join us for a Fun Rabbit Show & Gathering session. You can ask any questions and get first hand information about rabbits. Looking forward to meeting all of you for a fun filled evening.

Do come and join us as it is free and have an evening of fun! Absolutely NO CANCELLATION!

Venue: XOXO Pets Store, The Strand Kota Damansara

Date: 23rd April 2011

Time: 5 pm to 8 pm

Join us on Facebook here – https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148685785197561

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Back To Enjoying The Hobby

With the show and all the unnecessary stress behind me, I finally regain back my normal life and back to blogging about life with my beloved bunnies. I have learned many precious lessons trying to organize the show. The part I enjoyed most was being able to work with a few nice people which I hope to work with again in future. It was a smooth sailing start and we only experienced a few hiccups but in the end there was a huge hiccup. The number of entries happens to be one of the major roadblock. We will have to sit down and do a post mortem on the cause of this problem.

We have informed all parties the best we can through all possible channels and means. I would like to apologize on behalf of the Show Committee especially to all major dailies that has mentioned this event in their publishing.

Another precious lesson I learned and have matured out of is the fact that everything happens for a reason. We never stop learning from the moment we are born and it is never a life and death situation if things do not happen as we want them to.

So with the past behind me, what’s ahead?

I believe getting the club up and running first would be a good option to move forward. We shall take it from there. Some gatherings would do good for all hobbyists and rabbit owners too.

I finally had a breather to pick up my camera to take photos of my rabbits again. So here are some of my favourites that was to make their debut at the show.

Tru-Luv Puffin. A nice junior that turns senior in June. I love her thick ears and also a nice crown coming up. She just done her major molt.

Tru-Luv Symphony. A young senior doe right now. Just love how smooth she is.

Tru-Luv Trudle. This little buck tells me that I have some bone going on.

More upcoming cuties!

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