It was among a flurry of barking dogs and squeals of children's excitement that a long-awaited sheep called Amy walked regally across the tarmac of a regional airport in Tasmania, and straight into the arms of her new family.
Fresh off a plane trip across the Bass Strait, the arrival of the 55-kilogram ewe marked the start of one farming family's long-held dream — to become breeders of the "cutest sheep in the world".
When the Pearson family packed up their cattery and boarding kennel in Victoria to move to their dream Tasmanian hobby farm, they only needed one more thing to make their little household complete.
