Irish vet’s glasses turn up 2 years after being lost in cow’s belly

Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick has revealed the incredible moment a slaughterhouse returned his missing specs two years after he left them inside a cow’s belly.

Irish vet’s glasses turn up 2 years after being lost in cow’s belly

The Laois-born veterinarian surgeon said he searched everywhere for the glasses after he mislaid them during one of his earliest caesarean sections as a young practitioner in Ireland.

“I have accidentally left my glasses inside a cow. My first year in practice I was doing a cow caesarean. We were looking for my glasses after stitching up the cow [and] couldn’t find them anywhere,” he said.

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