A professional rabbit breeder has shared she decided to keep an adorable bunny as a pet after it was born with no ear flaps.
Little Leo the bunny was the only one of her eight siblings to enter the world without his trademark floppy ears.
Owner Kylie Clarke, 31, was worried she wouldn’t survive or be able to hear, but she said the lack of ears hasn’t affected her at all.
And while she’s going to give away the rest of the bunnies, she’s decided to keep little Leo as a pet.
Kylie, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, said: ‘I’ve never seen anything like it before.
‘She’s just beautiful. We called her Leo because she just looks like a mini lion.
‘Once Leo was born I knew something wasn’t right, she didn’t look right. Then as she got older you could see the she’s been born with completely no ears’ said Kylie.
The homemaker and mum-of-four has been a professional rabbit breeder for more than a year.
Leo, a mixed breed, was born six weeks ago.
‘I was really scared at the start, but when I stared doing a bit more research I realised its so so rare, but it can.
‘I have four kids, two girls and two boys, they just think its great. They think it’s a miracle. If anything it gets more attention than the other rabbits.
‘As far as I’ve researched there’s no exact explanation really. She’s otherwise happy and healthy.
She’s due to have a vet check this week, but seems to be perfectly healthy.
Her ears could be missing due to a genetic defect.
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