30/05/2024
Correction of lies and false claims made
by Naomi McCabe, in facebook posts she made in late 2022, relating to myself and my business. McCabe has had numerous opportunities to correct lies she made against me, she forfeited those chances, and until now I have remained silent. Now the corrections and truth shall be told.
For now I’ll leave you out of it Jacob McCabe as I hear you’re working out what a piece this Naomi is. But you may get a mention at some point for thinking it’s ok to barge onto our premises and threaten me. You may be having second thoughts as to your association with Naomi I’d hope. I could fill you in on plenty some day, should you wish.
McCabe lodged a complaint with the NSW VPB, and after investigation by a panel of expert veterinarians, I was cleared of all complaints, and still, Naomi McCabe chose to continue her online lies about myself and continued to fabricate allegations not supported by evidence. All of which I state here are supported by the findings of the Board and I thank them for their fair investigation. Interestingly, upon finding out that I was cleared by the Board, McCabe went on to attack the Board and claimed they are out to protect vets and not animals; Naomi, this is a lie, an outright false claim and one of many lies you told about me and my actions in relation to your stallion.
Naomi McCabe, a horse breeder in this area, requested a stallion’s semen be collected for shipment and processing. This is a practice I am well versed in and have done many times over the last 10 years. In Naomi’s own words to the effect (in texts to me) she had no idea about artificial breeding and semen collection and hence was asking me many questions about the process in the lead up to the actual collection time, all of which I was happy to answer, including numerous texts on weekends and after-hours, they were mostly all replied to. (Why do we now rarely reply to messages and calls out of regular hours unless urgent??? Well ask people like Naomi McCabe and her behaviour and she among others is why we have ceased that service sadly).
Whilst on our premises her stallion bit a member of my crew which required medical treatment. I regret that at that moment I did not send the horse home because of its dangerous behaviour, despite being a stallion.
During the process of collection of semen, the stallion began a series of dangerous behaviour, kicking at steel rails, aggressively going towards me (despite appropriate stallion halters and check chains), attacking my teaser mare, and which culminated in the stallion pinning me between the dummy mount and a steel rail fence. I took defensive action using a stock cane to keep the stallion from injuring me, and to bring him under control. The Board agreed with the expert veterinarian tasked to review the incident, that I took reasonable and appropriate action to defend myself and at all times I acted in a professional manner. In the Board’s words “it is common for stallion handlers to carry a poly pipe to protect themselves from aggressive behaviour and for discipline”. Naomi, your allegation I bashed your stallion is a lie, fabricated I assume because you can’t and won’t admit that your horse likely had discipline issues and hence likely contributed to its behaviour whilst in my care.
Naomi McCabe then continued with the false claims that I neglected her horse whilst in my care; a claim the Board found to be not supported by evidence and that there was evidence the horse had ample feed, water and shelter whilst in my care.
McCabe claimed that I didn’t provide the service with care like she paid for. Naomi, you didn’t pay for the semen collection, the mare owner did. So in fact, you didn’t pay for anything whilst your stallion was with me. Let’s continue on the issue of money Naomi, as it’s a common theme with some horse owners. Naomi owed us several thousand dollars at the time of this incident. Upon a demand for payment, Naomi requested a payment plan of her choosing, of which she then broke anyway and failed to pay legally-binding scheduled payments, and we subsequently recommenced legal action to claim monies owed. Eventually after a long period of small payments, Naomi paid what she owed. Funny that you needed to pay down your debt over installments isn’t it Naomi. I’m curious, do you allow buyers of your horses to pay off a horse after it’s left your property?? Or do they have to pay in full when you ask for it?? Do they just set themselves up on a payment plan and drive off with a new horse from you? In text messages you sent me you said “I have cash for that job”, well Naomi where was the money when you got the invoices and couldn’t pay me? I’d have thought you’d have the money for the job at least you claimed to have all the money for, or again were you just talking big and had nothing to back it up??
McCabe continued in her claim against me that she suffered income loss because she couldn’t use the stallion for months. The Board found there to be no evidence to support this claim. And in actual fact the stallion has been used again because I set a mare up for breeding to go to him only last season.
Naomi McCabe lied on facebook posts that her stallion sustained a broken leg. When the horse left our premises, he was sound to walk. The Board found there to be no evidence to support McCabe’s claim. Naomi, you lied. Your horse never sustained a broken leg under my care. The expert vet also found that a swab taken from your horse’s leg wound by another vet only grew normal flora and would be the same expected to be cultured from any equine leg wound. In other words, the culture result was not supportive of any severe infection in your horse and couldn’t be used to guide treatment nor prognosis.
The Expert Veterinarian acting for the Board found McCabe “exaggerated the extent of *stallion’s* injuries and the financial loss that she has suffered”. It was also noted that she did not seek veterinary care for her horse for three days after. In other words Naomi, you fabricated a bunch of bu****it claiming your horse is worth far more than you think or wish him to be, and the claim for loss of income you attempted to sue me for was laughable! At the time of the lies you made against me, you weren’t even registered as a business for the purposes of horse breeding. One may say that you were talking the talk but couldn’t walk the walk perhaps. In my opinion you couldn’t even talk the talk hence all the questions, but yet when it came to making lies up about me, you were suddenly an expert of breeding. Bit funny isn’t it!!
In a text message you sent me in conversation about the breeding times, you referred to the vet at the mare’s end as “stupid”; I put it to you Naomi that that vet is far more qualified than you’ll ever be, in anything. Remind us all again of your qualifications? Have you extensive proven breeding experience and experience in the veterinary side of breeding? Please tell us all here uh?? Naomi, you told me “if your gunna work with horses get educated first”; you should try some education yourself. “Your” in this use is actually “you’re”. You claim a few of us vets are stupid but yet in all your questions and requests for help, why couldn’t you sort your animals? Why didn’t you know all the answers to all the things you asked me time and time again? Ironic isn’t it. You’re a joke and people reading this will see that. You sent me in a text that you “usually live cover so this is all new to me”, so Naomi, how on Earth were you suddenly in a position of telling me and another vet that we’re stupid when in actual fact by your own admission you had no idea what the heck you were doing. I loathe people like yourself who seek to diminish and criticise those trying to help you and to educate you. You’re a real piece of work, just less the actual hard work.
This McCabe piece claimed over numerous facebook posts when we were once friends (in life we need to experience true desperation and associate with things like this McCabe to truely appreciate life’s joys when we see happiness and hope again on the other side, to realise what these people are worth- nothing) that she had found God. I ask you Naomi, in all your actions and publication of lies about me, was your God approving of it? Is that the new teaching of God is it?? Laughable yet again. I’ve nothing against followers of a God but when you Naomi in one breath speak of God’s words then in another post your lies about somebody, you’re a piece of walking hypocrisy aren’t you.
I could go on and on about this Naomi McCabe as this is only a fraction of the story. Horse breeders and buyers, if you’re contemplating buying one of her horses or breeding a mare to her stallion (if he is even still there) contact me first and I will inform you of many reasons why you should think seriously and look elsewhere. There are plenty of other stallions and far better horse owners in this region who have exemplary credentials and integrity and many of whom I am fortunate to have as clients and friends, and who I am saddened that the old school genuine values of these good people are often burdened by the actions of a few scum, hence these posts will continue to expose those of you who need it it seems.
Again, I am deeply saddened I have to stoop to this low level but Naomi et al, you folk only seem capable of playing down here so now I’ve corrected your lies I shall rise again to where our great clients are and continue to grow and provide the services they expect of us. I was very happy to keep private private and our differences private but you chose to go public so I’ll follow your lead!!
It’s a shame you wouldn’t accept during the litigation that you fabricated claims that were untrue and not supported by any evidence, and that the entire incident was the result of behavioural issues of your stallion and were not the fault of me, but in similar fashion to some of your fellow horse owners, you seek to blame everybody but yourself rather than accepting that things aren’t always perfect and that most of the time issues are all able to be resolved. It’s called understanding, courtesy, respect of knowledge and education, working to fix problems together and learning and improving.
I thank the Board again for their thorough and fair investigation and I’m saddened that our profession has to deal with these sorts of people and incidents. I will not ever in the future sit silent while we have people among us here thinking it’s perfectly ok to treat a vet in this manner and get away with it. It won’t happen here and I will not stop in this campaign to rid the profession of this rot that seems to have become all too common.
To everybody out there, remember the name, Naomi McCabe. Don’t go near her if you’re looking at horses or breeding one.
Once again to our supporters and great clients, I only take to these posts to correct false and damaging lies told about my business. I will not cease until the message is crystal clear that we expect respect and courtesy and if you have an issue with us then I am very happy to discuss it in private and keep it private, with the exception being when you make false claims about me as a vet, or you refuse to pay what you legitimately owe us. I have until the past two days never published anything of an ex-client but I will certainly do my part to stamp out this rot where people think they can treat us in a manner that is nothing short of horrible. I am no saint but I sure have paid a heavy price for things and have continued daily to strive for better and continue to work hard for our clients and our goals.
Til next time, and it will be a clinical post I promise. It’s very sad we have these animal owners in our region but I’ve not a hesitation at all to continue, and I will. The situation needs to change to the point owners accept the challenges of the environment in which we work and that there are so many factors that contribute to an outcome for your animal, and that every single day a great many vets are trying bloody hard to help you.
All I have stated here is backed by the official findings of the VPB, and with a huge file of saved messages and screenshots of things McCabe et al said of us.
**edit**
Naomi, funny you talk of immaturity and silliness in your response to me naming you. Weren’t you the one who first went all over facebook with your lies about myself and my business?? What do you call that? Not the same thing is it? Or are you ok to do it but not ok for the truth to be told about you in reply on here?
And you are correct I am very sensitive; sensitive to the bu****it you and others think is ok to disseminate and probably surprised that you’re getting the truth told back.
