Jack Moore - Mules and Moore Beware of cheating horse/mule dealer Greer South Carolina

Jack Moore is a lier and a cheat.  He is a discrace to the horse industry.  I contacted Jack about a draft mule that was suppose to of been 12 years old.  This mule supposedly had come from an amish farm and had been worked to all farm machinery and would do it all.  Work single and double and as a bonus you could ride him.  Said the mule had been ridden by a kid on trails and was a great beginners mule.  I had a team of percheron mares at the time that were registered that I was trying to sale so that I could purchase this mule.  My mares were 16 and 17 years old but were sound both for working and for breeding.  I had just raised a foal off of both and neither had ever had trouble foaling. My mares would ride english and western and would drive single or double.  Jack offered to trade me this 12 year old mule for my team of mares with their harnesses and the wagon.  I agreed to make the trade but still had to figure out how I was going to get to greer to pick the mule up and be able to bring him my mares and the wagon.  Jack offered to come up to Virginia and deliver the mule to me and pick up the mares and wagon for a fee.  I told him that I also had a sleigh and an amish buggy that I would have to try to sale in order to get the money to pay the hauling fee on the mule.  He said he would take the sleigh and amish buggy if I wanted to trade them for the shipping fee on the mule.  I agreed.

It took Jack almost a month to bring the mule up to me.  Once he got here the mule he brought off the trailer had so many scars on his body that it was sickening.  He had scars on his shoulders from where he had been worked in a collar that was obviously didnt fit him, and he had scarrings on his back leg from the trace chains.  He had scarrings around his ears and around his eyes from where his bridle didnt fit properly either.  These were not fresh scars these were scars that this mule had from a hard life of working. I am not a judge of age on horses or mules so I was not aware till some time later that this mule was actually close to 30 years old.  I made the trade with him because that was what we had agreed upon.  I learned never to buy something without going to look at it.  I asked Jack for his coggins papers and the health papers from the vet and he said that he had forgotten them and he would mail them to me.  I called him about 2 weeks later and he said that they had been misplaced but as soon as he could put his hands on them he would mail them to me.  A month went by and he still was not able to produce the paper work.   The mule was very gentle and I rode him several times over the course of the 30 days that Jack guarentees his animals.  The mule seemed to do fine for what I was looking for which was just to ride around the farm when I had time to.  About 60 days after purchase I had to call the vet out because the mule had developed cellulitis in one of his back legs. This is when I called the vet out and found out that he was close to 30 years old if not over that.  She put the mule on meds, I had to dr the leg several times a day for about 2 weeks cold water hosing it and giving the poor guy antibiotics.  Once he was better, I started to ride him again and the same thing happened again.  The vet again came out had to put loads of money in to meds to clear up the leg again.  Vet told me that he had been worked to extensively in his life and that any strain to his legs would probably keep causing it to happen.  So I was not able to ride him and he became a field fixture.  I contacted Jack Moore several times after the first time the vet was out and he would not return my phone calls or emails.  Then he started posting on his site that he would no longer corrispond thru emails and that is because people would have proof of the lies he was telling.  I still have my emails where he told me that the mule was 12.  The man never returned my phone calls or emails about the mule.  So I learned an expensive lesson the hard way.  I had a 30 year old crippled mule that I had traded a nice team of registered percheron mares for as well as a set of leather pulling harnesses and a wagon, sleigh and amish buggy for.  Sadly to say with in 7 months of getting the mule I went out and found him dead in the field from yep you guessed it, OLD AGE.  The only good thing that came from all of this is the fact that the poor old mule was able to live a good life for a short period of time where he was given the best of care and most of all LOVED for once in his life.  I hate the fact though that my mares went to this monster because who knows what happened to them once they left my farm.  He told me he was going to use them on his farm to teach people to drive in the classes he taught but I really doubt that happened.  I hope this man is out of business but just in case he isnt I wanted to add to all of the other adds here for buyers to please beware.