I seem to remember a joke that was on the TV series Bonanza: that Hoss (Dan Blocker) started out when he was ten years old lifting a baby calf every day and kept lifting it as it grew older and was finally able to lift a full sized cow....if that's not taking a gradual approach to it, I don't know what is.

Plus....if it's a dairy cow, you get free milk as well....but I'd check your local zoning regulations before you head down to the stockyards,

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AA