Dog Befriends Abandoned Giraffe

Mokopane, South Africa — Weak and dehydrated. That was how Jazz the giraffe looked when a farmer found him in the wild. The farmer immediately called The Rhino Orphanage for help. The abandoned giraffe was only a few days old when he was taken to the orphanage.

At the orphanage, however, is a resident watchdog named Hunter, who quickly began to care and befriended the newcomer.

Caretaker Janie Van Heerden says they bonded immediately.

She says the baby giraffe had been given IV fluids and is doing much better. He is being fed milk and is trying to eat leaves.

“Possibly soon he will be able to go home,” she said Friday.

How adorable.

(Image Credit: AP Photo/ Jerome Delay)