Hot Cross Hoppenings
Updates, announcements, and little glimpses of life at Hot Cross Buns.
November 4, 2026
Surprise!
Coreopsis and Darius welcomed a litter of four wee kits this morning. (Sadly, there was also a stillborn baby.) There are two broken kits and two solids. I'm not guessing on colors yet, but all are dilute, so opal, blue, and lilac are the leading possibilities. The babies are only about an hour old, so there is still quite a bit of risk in keeping all of them warm, well-fed, and healthy. I was going to hold off a couple of days before announcing, but know that more than a few people were waiting to learn if any babies would arrive. We're cautiously optimistic that these wee ones will thrive in Corrie's loving care.
November 2, 2026
Nest Boxes Are Still Empty
After keeping a close watch on the four does we attempted to breed at the beginning of October, I'm not very optimistic about any new arrivals this month. We tried to breed Chummy, who was quite cooperative, but the buck just wasn't getting the job done. Same with Tansy. We had more success with Zinnia and Coreopsis, but still no babies for either of them. We're going to give it another day or two before trying again, but are still praying for a surprise the next time we check on them.
October 26, 2026
🐰 Upcoming Spays, Possible New Arrivals & a Diva's Decision!
There's plenty happening behind the scenes here at Hot Cross Buns! From upcoming surgeries to the possibility of tiny new arrivals, we have several updates to share.
💕 Skedaddle & Meander: Getting Ready for Their Next Chapters
Sweet Skedaddle is scheduled for her spay on Wednesday, October 28th! Once she's had time to recover, we'll update her profile with fresh information and photos and repost her listing on our Available Buns page. We expect her to make her return in approximately 3–4 weeks, provided her recovery goes smoothly.
We're also hoping to have Meander spayed before the end of November, although appointment availability may push her surgery into December. We'll share more once her date is confirmed!
🍼 Could There Be Tiny New Arrivals?
We're keeping our fingers crossed! If all goes as hoped, we may be blessed with some precious new arrivals toward the end of this week or early next week.
Nothing is certain just yet, but we're certainly looking forward to the possibility of welcoming a few more little bundles of bunny sweetness into the HCB family! 🐇💕
👑 Mississippi Mud Pie: A Little Change of Plans?
Our lovely Mississippi Mud Pie has been waiting for just the right family to come along, but we're beginning to think this charming little diva might be perfectly happy staying right where she is!
We're leaving her listing on our Available Buns page through November 6th, giving a special family one last opportunity to express interest in welcoming her home.
If the right match hasn't come along by then, we'll quietly retire her listing and make her place as one of our beloved resident pet Buns permanent. She's getting ready to celebrate her 6th birthday and we're going to give her the gift of permanency if someone else doesn't. She has been incredibly healthy all of her days with us, so we anticipate at least another four or five years with our sassy girl.
Either way, Mississippi Mud Pie has a wonderful future ahead of her. She's already loved and cherished here at HCB, and we're perfectly content to let this little lady continue ruling her corner of our world! 💕
🍂 More Hoppenings to Come!
Between upcoming spays, hopeful new beginnings, and the everyday antics of our beloved Holland Lops, life at Hot Cross Buns is never dull!
We'll be sharing more news as these little stories unfold. 💕
Pictured below (left to right): Skedaddle, Meander, Mississippi Mud Pie (Missy)
October 19, 2026
🐰 A Tiny New Face and Fresh Bunny Updates! 💙
We've been busy updating our website, and we have some exciting additions to share!
💙 Meet TipToe – Our Pint-Sized Future Herd Buck!
We've added a brand-new profile for TipToe, our tiny broken blue Holland Lop, to the Hot Cross Buns Family Herd page!
TipToe may be small, but he's overflowing with sweetness! This gentle little gentleman adores attention, although he's much too polite to demand it. Instead, he waits patiently until someone notices him, then happily soaks up every pet and snuggle he can get. Sweetly shy yet wonderfully trusting, he's an absolute delight!
He also has quite the appetite for hay and pellets, so we'll be keeping a watchful eye on that tiny waistline! We're excited to watch him mature and have high hopes for his future as one of our HCB breeding bucks.
📸 Fresh Photos & Videos of Our Available Buns!
We've also updated the photos and videos of Sweet Tea, Kipling, Lark, and Sparrow on our Available Buns page!
Each of these lovely Holland Lops has a personality all their own, and their updated photos and videos offer a fresh glimpse of these special bunnies as they await their future families.
We hope you enjoy getting better acquainted with TipToe and catching up with Sweet Tea, Kipling, Lark, and Sparrow! 🐇💕
(Left to right beginning with top row: TipToe, Sweet Tea, Lark, Sparrow, Kipling.)
October 10, 2026
Darling Robin went home with his new family today! Our best litter box user, he made a surprising mess on our couch while we took care of the paperwork and answered questions. I had to laugh because he left quite the parting gift! Thankfully, we had protected the surface with a washable potty pad, but it always amazes me how many poo balls a rabbit can leave in his wake. His new family is wonderful and we are so happy they found their way to us!
October 6, 2026
🐰 Hoppenings at Hot Cross Buns!
We have a few updates to share on our Available Buns page!
Robin, Lark, and Sweet Tea have now been added to our available listings. Each of these boys has his own personality and story, and we’re excited to begin looking for the right forever families for them.
Sweet Tea’s placement is a particularly special one. He has been part of our HCB family for over three years and is deeply loved here. We're giving him a limited opportunity to find an exceptional forever home, but if that home doesn’t come along, he will remain one of our own family Buns.
We also have an important update regarding Meander, Roam, Wander, and Skedaddle.
Their current listings will be temporarily removed from the Available Buns page on Friday, October 9, as we begin preparing them for their upcoming spay procedures. Following surgery, they’ll have time to recover, allow their hormones to begin settling, and be reassessed before placement.
We currently expect the girls to be re-listed 3-4 weeks after their procedures, provided their recoveries are progressing normally.
If one of these girls has already caught your eye, don’t worry — their disappearance from the website does not mean they have been placed. They’re simply taking a short break from availability while we get this important part of their care completed.
You can visit our Available Buns page to meet Robin, Lark, Sweet Tea, and our other currently available rabbits:
https://hotcrossbuns.org/available-holland-lop-rabbits-in-ohio
As always, our placements are based on thoughtful fit rather than first-come availability. We want every HCB Bun to land exactly where he or she belongs. 🐇💕
October 4, 2026
Sweet Tart turns 10 years young today! This little girl is actually our son Isaiah's Bun and he has taken care of her since he bought her when he was 10 years old. She adores him and still manages to find him, despite being blind in both eyes due to cataracts. Sweet Tart is the first of our rabbits to make it to this milestone and we are beyond joyful that she has been such a special part of our lives, rabbitry, and home for the past decade.
Happy Birthday, darling Sweet Tart!
October 3, 2026
Sweet Wren is on her way home with her wonderful new family! We're especially excited about this placement because they live locally so we'll be available to offer more hands-on help and advice, if needed. We can't wait to hear how she adjusts and settles in!
Next week is her brother Robin's turn, plus we'll add neutered bucks Sweet Tea and Lark to the Available Buns page!
October 3, 2026...Later in the day
After getting our hay delivery for the Buns and goats put up in the barn, we planned for a relaxing day, put it didn't work out that way. We ended up having to have our beloved elderly morkie, Henry, put to sleep tonight. Rest in Peace, Henry.
September 30, 2026
The boys are back from their neuters! All went as it should regarding Sweet Tea, Lark, and Robin's neuters. Upon entering their cage spaces, Robin promptly used his litter box. while Sweet Tea and Lark headed straight for their food bowls.
We'll give them a week of recuperation time and then make them available for placement. If they love him as much as we think they will, Robin already has a family looking forward to taking him home.
We'll be updating their pictures soon! Robin's is current, but we somehow missed doing a new one of Lark during our most recent picture-palooza. He looks very similar to Sweet Tea and is a chip off the old block.
September 26, 2026
Wren is waiting to go home next weekend! She absolutely fell in love with her new family and is going to be not-so-patiently waiting as they put the finishing touches on her new Bun-room. We met three generations of this wonderful family and they are all smitten with Wren-Fluff, as she will be known. She loves her new middle name! Sparrow was an absolute doll while meeting them, too, but ultimately Wren won their hearts. Sparrow, your turn is coming, sweet girl!
Meander had been on hold for a family who were supposed to meet her on Friday evening, but they didn't come, nor have we been able to get a hold of them. She has been restored to "Available" status. We so hope everything is okay with the family who had expressed interest in her!
September 21, 2026
We have neutering appointments! Robin, Lark, and Sweet Tea will go in on September 30th and will be re-listed in the following week or two, if all goes smoothly. Robin has a tentative match waiting in the wings, so we are very hopeful that he will be placed shortly thereafter. This was a great way to start a Monday morning!
September 19, 2026
Toddles has FINALLY been matched! This little doe has generated a ton of attention, but it took until today to match her with the right person. She is going to be the Bun friend of Maddy and we hope they will be very happy together. Toddles has not been herself since her sister and pen-mate Saunter went home on Tuesday, which leads us to think that Toddles would be happiest as a bonded Bun. Thankfully that hope can be fulfilled in the future, after Toddles is spayed and recuperates. A few other things need to happen before then, but in time, we hope this sweet girl will have another friend best buddy to share with Maddy.
September 15, 2026...UPDATE
Little Miss Saunter has been matched! She is going to be another OSU "student" attending with her new BunMom. Saunter was her normal, stoic self throughout the meeting, same facial expression, same position throughout. I was laughing so hard. She scooped Saunter up, and Saunter continued with the same scrunched up face and, "Leave me alone already" expression. We're going to miss this little curmudgeon-esque girl, but we hope she will be happy (err...as content as possible) with her new BunMom and human friends.
September 15, 2026
Pictures of most of the Available Buns were posted late yesterday...finally. Taking pictures of more opinionated junior rabbits isn't as easy as updating pictures of babies. Babies are typically happy and curious while juniors are basically teenagers, so can be more challenging when trying to accommodate their likes and dislikes.
We're still waiting to get Lark and Robin scheduled for their neuters, but are continually being told that they're waiting to hear back from the vet about her schedule. This has been going on for about six weeks.
When we do get appointments scheduled for Lark and Robin, we're also going to set one for happy-go-lucky Sweet Tea. He has firmly established his genetics throughout the rabbitry, especially among the babies we have kept to produce the next generations. Since it would no longer be wise to keep him intact, we are going to have him neutered and retire him from our breeding program. We're holding off on deciding if he will remain with us as a pet or if he will be listed on the Available Buns page following his recovery. We may list him and then pull him if he isn't snapped up fairly quickly. My daughter Evelyn and I both have a very soft spot in our hearts for his winning ways and impish sauciness. so it may be too difficult to part with him. He would do beautifully as a bonding bunny, as he loves his ladies, but it may take him a bit longer than typical to transition from rabbitry Romeo to cuddly Bun friend.
I took pictures of Robin yesterday, along with all the others, and decided to add them here, since his regular listing is going to be inactive until about two weeks following his neuter.
(Stage whisper...): We hope to announce some joyful news later today about a placement being made, but mum's the word for now. :D
September 9, 2026
We received another Oona update to share! We love it when the Buns get to experience the joys of higher education with their people and demonstrate the ability to love and support them through the challenges of academia!
Hi Amy!
Hope all is well with you, your family and the buns! Little life update for Oona, she is officially a college girl! She made the transition down to Columbus with no problems and has enjoyed exploring her new place. She is adored by my roommates, and all that meet her. She also has become much more cuddly with me recently and has started to enjoy more pets and cuddles. She often will loaf so she can soak in all the love. She is truly such a blessing and my life ❤️
-A.
August 23, 2026
Spayed doe Quinoa has been matched! An update has been posted on her profile page.
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Hot Cross Buns Holland Lops
Oberlin, Ohio
Indoor companion Holland Lops raised with care since 2016.
Email: hcbhollands@gmail.com