The Chinchilla Rex Rabbit Breed became popular in the early 1900’s shortly after the Belgian Hare boom in America. There are three breeds of Chinchilla rabbits, the American, the Giant, and the Standard. When the Rex craze hit America, breeders saw the Rex coat as a way to create a breed that most closely resembled the Chinchilla mammal of South America.
Fanciers bred the Rex coat into all three of the American Chinchilla rabbit breeds, and many of the Chinchilla traits filtered into the original Rex bloodline. However, like many of the other breeds created with a Rex coat, none of the three Chinchilla breeds lasted long and they soon became extinct.
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