'Hero' dog rescues sheep by swimming through Storm Babet flood waters in Wales

A courageous sheepdog has been branded a “hero” after it swam across a flooded field to rescue three ewes on a Welsh farm as Storm Babet battered the UK.

Llyr Derwydd said that he had gone to check on his flock in Flintshire on Friday afternoon when he noticed the sheep were in trouble and sent the dog, called Patsy, to coax them to safety.

In footage shared by the sheep farmer on social media, the dog can be seen chasing the ewes along the edge of the field, before they find a shallower spot to cross to safety. The video has now been watched more than 20,000 times.

“We thought we’d better go check, make sure all the sheep are safe, and that’s when we saw the three ewes stranded on this little spot on the field,” Mr Derwydd told PA.

“It was getting smaller and smaller so we thought we’d better get them off and make sure they’re safe.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/21/sheepdog-saves-stranded-ewes-farm-floods-flintshire/

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