One courageous dog in Australia recently rescued an entire flock of sheep from approaching bushfires.
On New Year's Eve, Stephen Hill and his 6-year-old dog, Patsy, saw the bushfires inching closer and closer to Hill's sister's farm around 4:15 AM—so they set out to save the animals in its wake.
Hill jumped onto a four-wheeler over to the fields where his sister's sheep were kept. Patsy followed him closely and when she noticed the sheep she took off in their direction.
Patsy surrounded the herd and directed them to the barn, while Hill and his sister fended off the flames with a tractor and a water pump.
Patsy saved nearly every single sheep in the flock, over 220 to be exact.
"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."
News of her rescue effort spread throughout the region, and because of her popularity, an Instagram account of the shepherd-terrier mix has been created, already accumulating thousands of followers.