Photograph both flanks of a Harlequin rabbit first
A Harlequin rabbit record begins with source, age, sex, arrival weight, and two photographs — left side and right side — because the breed's alternating bands and split face differ on each flank. Add a front view showing how the colour divides down the face and ears. Those images are identification, not decoration: a sitter, vet, or finder can match this exact rabbit from them, and they fix her markings at arrival before her adult coat settles and the pattern sharpens or softens with growth and moulting.
Keep the daily hay and droppings log for gut health
For a Harlequin rabbit, daily notes should follow digestion closely in the first weeks: hay consumed, droppings plentiful and round or scant and small, greens accepted or refused, and water refilled. Harlequins share the rabbit sensitivity to gut slowdown, and a written sequence — less hay on one day, smaller droppings the next — is what turns a vague worry into a prompt vet call. Once the pattern is steady, summarise weekly, but keep the daily habit whenever diet, housing, or companions change.
Record grooming, moult, and skin checks for the dense coat
A Harlequin rabbit's coat needs a grooming line in the record: brush sessions, moult periods when loose fur peaks, and skin checks under the bands of colour where flakes or sore patches can hide. Note any mats behind the ears or around the hindquarters and how she tolerated handling for grooming. Fur swallowed during heavy moult links back to digestion, so grooming dates beside the droppings log let you and a vet spot whether a gut dip followed a big moult rather than a food change.
File vet, teeth, and ear notes from the first visit
The Harlequin rabbit vet page should hold the rabbit-savvy clinic's details, after-hours contact, and the first examination written up: incisors and cheek teeth checked, ears clean, weight on clinic scales, and any parasite prevention discussed. Save the neutering record here later if it happens, with recovery notes on appetite and droppings returning to normal. Because rabbits mask pain well, that first thorough baseline — teeth fine, gut sounds normal — becomes the comparison point for every later concern you raise.
Write down diet transitions and bonded companion details
Record the Harlequin rabbit's starting hay, pellet description, and each green as introduced, one at a time with reactions noted. If she lives with or will be bonded to another rabbit, the file needs the companion's identity, bonding dates, and how feeding works — separate piles, scattered greens — so neither rabbit monopolises food. A helper reading the record should learn from it that this rabbit eats slowly beside a greedier companion, a fact that changes how meals must be supervised.
Keep the Harlequin file current and ready to travel
Tidy the Harlequin rabbit record monthly: fresh flank photos after each moult, weights listed in order, vet notes filed, diet page updated to what she actually eats now. Old greens she refused and routines she outgrew can be archived so the working file stays short and clear. Arranging that working file inside KinsLe's Pet Passport keeps her markings, diet, and vet history in a single packet ready for appointments, boarding, or bonding introductions.