Vet on the Moove: When it comes to matters of the heart, tyre-wire is a cow's enemy

Tyre wire prevention involves keeping a tidy yard as cows are very curious creatures and will eat things they are certainly not designed to digest.

Tyre-wire is when a piece of wire or metal is ingested and it causes damage to the cow internally. Picture: Denis Minihane

Last week, both locuming and on the farm had cows that were causing heartache in more ways than one. At this time of year, you always get the “weird and the wonderful” case thrown at you and last week it came in double trouble.

I was back in the beautiful Killarney again, reliving my new graduate days visiting the farms that laid the foundation for my cow vet career. One particular morning the phone rang and it was a farmer that I still had his number saved, one of the originals.