It was just another day at the sheep yard for Izzie the black kelpie until, as Tasmanian farmer Charlie MacKinnon put it, his “best dog” got caught. Izzy was helping herd sheep on MacKinnon’s family farm when she slipped and got stuck, Mackinnon has said: “Izzy just sat there like in the photo looking at me, so I whipped out my phone and took this shot.” She was quickly rescued. A single print of the photo was pinned on MacKinnon’s fridge for years before he entered it in a sheep photography competition – it soon won the hearts of thousands when it went viral on social media.
