The back of the car is usually reserved for children, dogs or shopping bags from the supermarket.
But for Tessa Kingsbury, the back of her car is reserved for Buddy, her 2-year-old ram.
"He loves it because he knows that I always have a little tray of sheep nuts for him in the back of the car.
"I think he jumps into every open car thinking that there's got to be sheep nuts there somewhere."
Anytime the pair travels together she puts the back seats down in her Subaru Impreza, or 1957 Morris Minor van, and lets him take a ride,
She got Buddy in 2022 when he came to her as a "broken sheep" who was not supposed to live past three days, Ms Kingsbury said.
But he overcame those odds and decided to keep on living.
He lived at her home in Andersons Bay most of the time, but whenever she left for a period of days he stayed at a friend’s lifestyle block in Mosgiel.
"He generally sits down once the car's been going for a little while and then he'll stand up when we get there and jump out."
"I used to take him down to the park . . . and there was a young man getting ready to go on a camping trip and had all his car doors open and Buddy jumped into his car and blew his mind.
"He does love a car ride."
People who saw him out and about often tried to get photos.
"The path from Andy Bay to Upper Junction is straight through the city and you get a lot of cars cruising around us, taking photographs and a lot of kids trying to tell their parents that it's a sheep and a lot of parents saying, no, that's a dog."
He was a calm passenger and had only "pooped" one time while riding, she said.
That happened because he got a fright from a speed bump.
"I unapologetically corner very slow and go over speed bumps very slow because he's only pooped in the car once and it was when I was in a bit of a rush and went over a speed bump too fast."
Buddy spent most of his time in the backyard of her Andersons Bay home.
"I don't know if there's too many other sheep living in suburbia."
