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More Than 220 Sheep Saved From Australian Bushfires After Heroic Pup Herds Them to Safety

More Than 220 Sheep Saved From Australian Bushfires After Heroic Pup Herds Them to Safety
Patsy the terrier-shepherd mix is being hailed as a hero after she rushed to rescue more than 220 sheep from a field during the Australian bushfires.

This is Patsy just after she and her human brought the sheep to safety on the morning of New Year's Eve. Cool as a cucumber, Patsy waited with him until the fire got close enough to fight with a tractor and water pump. What a team! #patsythecorryongwonderdog #strongincorryong

A post shared by Patsy The Wonderdog (@patsythecorryongwonderdog) on Jan 5, 2020 at 2:48am PST

 

This courageous pup is being credited for saving an entire flock of sheep from impending bushfires in Australia earlier this month.

On New Year's Eve, Stephen Hill saw the wildfires approaching his sister's farm in Corryong, Australia sometime around 4:15AM.

Hill and his 6-year-old pup Patsy then rushed over to the farm, hopped onto a 4-wheeler, and rode out to where the sheep were wandering the fields.

Quick as a flash, Patsy rounded up the herd and ushered them into a barn while the owner of the farm fended off the flames with a tractor and water pump.

Thanks to Patsy's quick actions, almost every single one of the roughly 220 sheep were saved from the fires.

"If you haven't got a good dog, you can't do so much with the sheep," Hill told NBC News. "They're really difficult to move in any way, shape or form unless you have a good dog."

 

A post shared by Patsy The Wonderdog (@patsythecorryongwonderdog) on Jan 8, 2020 at 4:11am PST

 

Since Patsy's heroic story has been shared across international news outlets and social media, her owners have started an Instagram account for the terrier-shepherd mix—and it has already garnered several thousand followers.

Thankfully, Australian meteorologists are hoping that this week's forecast for upcoming rainfall will help bring a much-needed break to the province's bushfires.

 

If this @BOM_NSW rainfall forecast comes to fruition then this will be all of our Christmas, birthday, engagement, anniversary, wedding and graduation presents rolled into one. Fingers crossed. #NSWRFS #nswfires pic.twitter.com/R9VfD0bqu2

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