A File With a Coat and Hock Section
Build your Rex rabbit's records as one dated file, paper or digital, with vaccination cards at the front, then vet visit notes, dental findings, and a weight chart, and add a section most rabbit files lack: coat and hocks. The Rex is defined by its extraordinarily soft, velvety coat, which comes with less protective guard hair than other breeds, and Rex rabbits are known to need watching for sore hocks, where pressure and friction wear the fur and skin on the back feet. Recording hock condition at every vet visit, noting the flooring your rabbit lives and rests on, and logging any coat thinning or sore patches you spot at home gives your vet a timeline instead of a single snapshot when a foot problem appears.
That section also records what helped: a change of resting surface, deeper bedding in a favourite corner, or weight coming down. Future flare-ups are then managed from evidence rather than guesswork.
The Standard Sections, Kept Sharply
Vaccination paperwork belongs at the very front where it can be produced for a clinic or boarding facility without a search. Dental notes follow in date order, because a rabbit's teeth grow throughout life and the pattern of findings across visits, not any single check, is what reveals developing trouble. Keep treatment notes, procedures, and recovery observations in the same chronology, with appetite and droppings noted through any recovery period.
Weigh your Rex regularly and record the figures alongside brief body condition notes, feeling through that dense plush coat rather than trusting your eyes. Weight and hocks belong in conversation together for this breed, because extra weight increases pressure on those vulnerable feet, and your chart may be what connects a creeping gain to a returning soreness in time to reverse both with your vet's guidance.
Identification, Home Observations, and Contacts
Open the file with a clear photograph showing your Rex's colour, which can be rich and distinctive, plus name, sex, and microchip details if present. Then keep a dated home log behind the formal notes: appetite, droppings, activity, coat condition at the usual rubbing points such as shoulders and hips, and how the hocks look at a weekly check on a calm day. A Rex that starts shifting weight off a back foot or avoiding a hard floor area has communicated early, and a dated note preserves that communication for the vet.
Add your regular vet, your emergency option, and sitter instructions covering hay and food, resting surfaces that must stay in place, and the foot signs that warrant a call. For this breed, telling a sitter not to remove the soft resting mats is a health instruction, not a housekeeping preference.
Maintaining the Record Across a Lifetime
File documents the day they are issued, photograph paper cards as backup, and bring the file to every appointment so hock and dental findings are added while they are current. Refresh the front photo and contacts as they change, and review vaccination status before boarding rather than at the door. If your Rex changes vet or is cared for away from home, the complete file, coat and hock history included, goes with it.
Hock history scattered between memory and old invoices helps nobody when a foot flares on a weekend. Through KinsLe, Pet Passport keeps your Rex rabbit's vaccinations, weights, dental notes, and coat and hock record together in one portable packet, ready for any vet visit or stay away from home.