I am originally a city girl who has now lived in the country for quite some time. We have acreage and my husband and I talked about raising a couple of calves years ago. We decided that they would most like end up as pets and we would get too attached to them and could never send them off to the butcher. My neighbor raises a few calves each year and they are just so cute except when they get into my veggie garden and start munching everything. They have escape from their property many times and it is hard to get a nearly full size cow out your garden.
Oh we are definately attached to Brownie. She will always be a pet. We have about 27 head of cattle. They're all girls, so we don't intend to eat them. We sell the babies when they get big enough.
We have horses, mini horses and goats too. My favorite though is my great big collie named Daisy.