THIS bond... Tot befriends baby cow after the calf's mum dies

This is such a beautiful story. Sad, but beautiful. 

Mum Lacey Gray, from Memphis, Tennessee, asked her uncle if she could borrow his three-day-old calf, Molly, for a photoshoot.

However, stating that the calf's mum would not be happy, he had to turn her down.

Sadly, though, the photographer received a phone call the next day, to say that Molly's mum had fallen and would not survive. 

Upon hearing that the calf would not survive without her mum, Lacey decided to take her home where her two-year-old daughter, Kinley, fell completely and utterly in love.

"[My uncle] called and asked if we could take care of her. I said yes. I hadn't even told my husband yet," the mum told The Dodo.

"I thought, oh my gosh, I'm going to be a cow mom. My husband didn't know that he was going to be a cow dad."

And while Kinley did not know she was about to become a cow sister, she took to the role like a duck to water – making sure Molly felt at home on her first night with the Gray family. 

And her fondness for the calf didn't stop there. 

Lacey, who has shared a photoshoot of the pair on the Delta Rose Photography Facebook page, explained how Kinley likes to feed Molly, and lets her animal lick her face.

We have a great bond, but I just love the bond she has with Kinley," says Lacey.

"It's something I didn't expect, that we would be so connected, and that we would love her so much and that she would love us so much."

The cow will stay with the family until she is bigger, and then they will decide if she should move back to the farm or stay with them. 

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