The illustrious Cecil Adams says that it can be done:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_363.html

So where can I find a photograph documenting a “cow tipping?” (Please:
no trashy Photoshop fakes.)

BTW: Cecil -- you're a chump!!!

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 01 Apr 2003 18:21 PST

This is NOT a Photoshop fake.  It is a GIF fake.  Will this suffice as
an answer, if no non-fake tipped (or tippable) cows are found?

"Click on the picture to tip the cow"
Internet Archive cache of Bob Online
http://web.archive.org/web/20020202184651/www.ieatcrayons.com/meowcow.html

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 01 Apr 2003 18:23 PST

And yes, I do realize it's not quite photograph quality. :-)

Dear 4103, 

Not unlike Google Answer Researchers, cows could be tipped, too. This
is not where the similarities end: "I have been swept into the craze.
Like all good, hollow-eyed addicts, I seek to drag my friends to the
same ruinous end. In short, I have discovered Googlewhacking. It may
be even more fun than cow tipping, if that is possible." (Source:
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:JTiAQo1Iw1wC:www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl%3Fmsg_id%3D0087jv+%22cow+tipping%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8).

At least three schools exist regarding cow tipping: the good, the bad,
and the ugly.

The bad news, is of course, that cow tipping exists only in the minds
of urban dwellers, who would like to think that people in the farms do
something else than playing with their sheep. There are several cow
tipping sites that discuss this issue to a length.

The Most Urban of All Urban Legends -
http://www.skeptic.com/jr5-09.html

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/cowtipping.htm also doubts it

although http://em-ntserver.unl.edu/Mechanics-Pages/Matt-Semke/The%20Statics%20of%20Cow%20Tipping.htm
claims it might be possible to more than one person - physically
speaking.

Kids online - http://www.kidsonlinemagazine.com/sports/cowtipping.html

and http://www.hippy.freeserve.co.uk/farmerg.htm also contain some
kind of rebutal. As for the former, I must agree, from my acquitance
with Welsh cows: they are very much alert and scared, and they leave
their marks everywhere - it doesn't smell so good.

However, and that's probably the ugly, some sites have (non
photoshop!) proves of some cow tipping going on:

http://homepage.mac.com/judiandnick/Natalie14/Pages/Image25.html shows
a picture of a baby tipping a cow

http://www.annshallmark.com/cowparade/26252.jpg - shows a statue of a
tipped cow

http://www.sacrao.org/sacrao/mosispics.asp - Southern Association of
Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (SACRAO) had a whole
happening of Cow Tipping.
 
Further sites (some with photoshop cheap tricks): 

http://www.blueneptune.com/~maznliz/tipcow.shtml 

http://www.littlejoe.org/cowtipping.htm 

http://www.nwlink.com/~timelvis/cowtip.html 

http://home.online.no/~kaaaaa/vilsuals/visuals-cowtip/cowtip.html 

http://members.aol.com/danthecowman/cows.htm 

http://www.cs.umb.edu/~eugene/cow.html 

http://totl.net/Urban/cow.php 

Last but not least, and in order to answer your question, there are
some web based evidences on cow tipping. The good news, is that you
could tip a cow: -
http://www.maximumedge.com/ecards/card.cgi?action=preview&type=picture&PICTURES=HUMOR/COWTIPPING.GIF

A user in a "2 Everything" node on cow tipping advices: "Remember to
tip your cow 15% for standard service, or 20% or more for exceptional
service. Cows don't get paid minimum wage and depend on your tips to
pay the bills." (Source:
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?lastnode_id=124&node_id=140225).

However, my answer to your question: as much as possible. 

Moooo-guru-ga

Hi there,

The illustrious Cecil should know better.

Yes, indeed, cows can be tipped.  However, they SHOULDN'T be tipped. 
They can be seriously injured - broken legs for one thing.  And if
said moo *isn't* injured, he's going to take off after the tipper and
run him over with extreme prejudice.

Don't let their size and apparent stupidity fool you.  They run like
the wind when provoked AND they BITE.

--Missy <--bovineophile

This is all I know about cow tipping:

Don't let the term "sirloin tips" fool ya. My friend Vickie used to be
a waitress at International House of Cowpats, and she says that cows
are lousy tippers.

Miss Manners in her famous book, "Missed Your Manners, Mister?", and
her sensational sequel, "Mean Missy Missed Manners Means Messy Mores"
reminds us that tipping is usually at 15 to 18 percent.

However, if you tip an American cow the standard 15 to 18 percent,
they tend to take it personally and use their tips to resolve their
beef. The only place tipping 15 to 18 percent really works is in Pisa,
Italy, where they have gone so far as to have erected a monument to
cow tipping, the world-famous Leaning Cow of Pisa.

If you stiff a cow (and this is no bull - I'm milking it for all it's
worth), you're liable to become the object of its moooving ire and it
cud just toss you like a salad with the tips of its horns.

Besides, every aggie worth his weight in animal husbandry (well, in
the case of cows, animal wifery) will tell you that one should always
tip a cow 20 percent just to be sure!

I certainly hope this clears the matter up!
Serenata

pssst, buddy, take a tip from me. It's an udder disgrace. They *never*
listen to any tips I ever gave them... and I gave them some good ones.
That's why you've never seen an independently wealthy cow in a bull
market...

I would take Serenata's advice.  If you tip a cow more than 20% there
is a good chance it may fall over.

Now there is a breed of cattle where the bulls have some amazing
abilities, especially during earthquakes.  During the Northridge quake
a few years ago in California, a roving reporter was watching a few of
these bulls in a field near LA.  They were gently rocking back and
forth during the ground shaking.

The reporter went up to the herd to try and find out what was going
on.  He decided to ask one of them.  The lead animal responded
"Webulls wobble but we don't fall down."

Oh well, if you are not familiar with a particular toy, it will make
no sense.

>he's going to take off after the tipper <

Missy --

They didn't milk bulls in the part of Ohio that I came from.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Sorry, all I could com up with are fakes -- but they're great fun!

http://web.archive.org/web/20010830111927/http://deep-end.com/archive/arch205.gif

http://www.cs.umb.edu/~eugene/cow.html

http://tsp.votscomic.com/comicpro/strips/103102-20579.jpg

http://www.blueneptune.com/~maznliz/tipcow.shtml

http://www.littlejoe.org/cowtipping.htm

http://www.nwlink.com/~timelvis/cowtip.html


Search Strategy

cow tipping
http://images.google.com/images?q=cow+tipping&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&filter=0

Regards,

ace

It appears that Google Answers Researchers know very little about
tipping a cow, but we are rather adept at throwing the bull. :-D

Sorry, couldn't find any pictures. I did find the instructions though:

http://calstaging.bemidjistate.edu/en3930/lindahl/howto.html

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

I think maybe $1.00 would be enough.

Maybe more, it depends on the service.