“I think Jamila really like the company, they were very cute together. To see a cat and a rhino together, I nearly died.”

Jamie Traynor from The Rhino Orphanage got a call to pick up a newly orphaned baby rhino named Jamila

Orphaned baby rhino falls in love with her rescuer’s cat

Animal rescue workers are saviors to the animals they protect. Without their hard work and devotion, many animals would perish. This woman and her kitty are devoted to a special kind of rescue; they help save baby rhinos.

Jamie and Mewie volunteer at The Rhino Orphanage. They take care of baby rhinos that have been orphaned in the wild. Jamie cares for the rhinos day and night and makes sure the little babies adapt to their new home.

Jamie gets a call about a very young, orphaned rhino whose mother has been killed by poachers. The baby is also injured; presumably, she was hit with a machete while trying to protect her mother.

Jamie goes to pick up the rhino. When she does, she puts a blindfold on her and puts earplugs in her ears to help calm her and ease her fears. As far as rhinos go, this one is just a little adorable bundle of baby rhino love. “When we pick them up, they don’t know what’s happening, and they’ve lost their mum,”
she said.

She takes the baby back to the orphanage and gives her a bottle and she settles into bed. The baby, they name Jamila, needs lots of love and comfort. She gets plenty of cuddles and snuggles to try to reassure her that she is safe.
When a newly orphaned rhino comes to the orphanage, Jamie needs to spend a lot of time with them to gain their trust and get them to calm down a bit.

One special resident at the orphanage also does her part to help Jamila settle into her new life. Jamie’s cat, Mewie, makes friends with Jamila. She follows Jamila and plays with her outside.
Since she was so small, Jamila stayed with humans a lot. So Mewie the cat who belonged to Jamie decided he would join in on the rhino babysitting.

Mewie was clearly interested in Jamila and was showing her attention, always trying to be with her. Jamila also responded well to this, and a friendship began to blossom.

The purpose of the orphanage is to one day release the rhinos back into the wild, on a protected reserve. The babies are bottle-fed every few hours until they are weaned at 16 months. They live at the orphanage until they are about 3 years old.

The babies are adorable and love their human protectors. They come up for hugs and attention and to play with their caretakers. One of the cutest things they do is make adorable sounds. They also like to run and play in a mud hole
“Rhino’s need a lot of our help because the poaching has just sky-rocketed. So much has been put on a rhino’s horn and how ‘valuable’ it is when a rhino horn is made of keratin, which is the same as your hair and fingernails,” she concluded.

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