A 5-year-old Old English Sheepdog in this week’s Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is a miracle dog — born with semen frozen for 17 years.

Rudy finished second Monday in his Best in Breed section, but owner Adele Mac­Askill of Uxbridge, Ontario, says he’s a winner to her.

A breeder wouldn’t give Mac­Askill an Old English Sheepdog pup 25 years ago, but called 20 years later to say she had frozen the dog’s semen.

“Now I had his son and I was showing him at Westminster,” MacAskill said. “It was a miracle.”