Abandoned by his mother at birth, the Brahman bull calf was given to Glen Elgin grazier James Gresham by a farmer who didn’t have time to hand rear him. Mr Gresham then lent him to his brother Dominick, whose five children are hand rearing their unique pet in Tarragindi, an inner suburb five minutes south of Brisbane’s centre.

“Milo is a great pet for the suburbs. He is gentle, quiet and affectionate and as a bonus provides fertiliser for the garden,” said Dominick.

“The girls are delighted to have such an unusual pet and they often invite their friends around to share the experience. Milo is tethered on a long running cable giving him almost free range over our large back yard. Often he is taken for a walk around the local streets. Many people stare and make funny comments like ‘that’s a strange looking dog’,” he said.

His daughters - Rebekah 11, Sinéad 9, Sionnan 7, Xanthe, 4, are home schooled, so have been learning how to care for a calf and studying the history and attributes of Brahmans.

“They have learned that Milo is an ideal breed for Brisbane’s sub tropical climate as he is able to cope better with the heat and insects than his more traditional Australian cattle breeds,” Dominick said.

Their young brother Caspian, 1, is also pleased with their four-legged friend.

While Milo is a novelty for many of their friends, he is in fact the second calf the family has had as a pet.

“The last one was an Angus and was a bit frisky, but this one is very gentle,” Dominick’s wife Wendy Gresham said.

But for Milo, the city experience will be short lived; in a few months he will have to come back to the hills to be marked, and learn to live in a paddock.

As the most metro moo in the mob.