Former “The Bachelor” star Sean Lowe said on Monday that he was recently attacked by his dog on two separate occasions within 12 hours — attacks which sent him to the ER and left him fighting for his life.
Lowe, 41, revealed the shocking news about his newly adopted dog Moose and his harrowing experiences in an Instagram video posted to his account on Monday.
“Hey everybody, so, I guess you could say our family has been through something pretty traumatic over the weekend,” Lowe began, sitting next to wife Catherine Giudici’s. “I’ve debated on whether or not we should share this publicly, but I just figured you guys are going to ask questions and probably see things, so I might as well get out ahead of it.”
The Season 17 “Bachelor” continued, “On Thursday, I was having some friends of mine over to barbecue. Catherine took the kids to the mall, and we’re just barbecuing here on my patio, and it was a really nice night, so I had the doors and windows open, and some of the smoke from the barbecue started to drift inside, and our smoke alarm started going off.”
“So I grab a dish rag and I’m going over to waft the smoke away from the smoke alarm, because the siren was insanely loud,” Lowe recalled. “And as I’m holding the dish rag, Moose comes up and, like, bites it and kind of nips my finger really aggressively, which is something that he does not do. So, you know, I kind of gave him a, ‘No Moose.’”
The former “Bachelor” added that Moose’s bites were so strong that the dog “put holes” in his shoes.
He went on, “At this point again, there’s so much chaos going on with the alarm going off, I give him like a very stern like, ‘Moose. No. No.’ And it was right about that moment where he shows his teeth at me and just attacks me, and I don’t mean like bite and run off like a lot of dogs do when they’re scared or defensive. I mean, attacks me, and I feel him just kind of ripping into the flesh of my arm. And at this point, I am doing everything I possibly can just to fend this dog off.”
Though he said he was “bleeding badly,” he was able to get Moose into his backyard.
“He comes back through the door and attacks me for a second time, and not trying to be dramatic, but I honestly just felt like I am fighting for my life here against a dog,” he remembered. “Not just a dog. My dog, right? Like, he’s my dog. We’ve only had him for a little under three months, but like he’s my dog.”
Lowe recalled looking down at the bite on his arm, which he said was “so deep” that blood was “squirting.”
“My first thought is, ‘I think that dog may have nicked an artery,’” he continued. “And we have the video, which — the video is way too violent. I’m not going to share that, but you hear me saying, ‘This is serious. You got to get me to a hospital. Call Catherine.’ And I thank God that my friends were there, because they were able to rush me to the ER.”
Once he made it to the ER, the reality star got stitches in “five or six different places” on his arm.
By the time he returned him, his friends had gotten Moose into the backyard and cleaned up what he called a “literal pool” of blood inside his home.
The next morning, “confused” and “heartbroken,” Lowe knew that he couldn’t keep Moose in the house out of fear for his own safety and the safety of his wife and kids.
Lowe and Giudici, who married in 2014, share sons Samuel (8) and Isaiah (6) and daughter Mia (5).
Trying to devise “the best plan of action,” Lowe contacted animal control, the adoption agency where he and his wife got Moose and researched “various no kill shelters.”
After he told his parents what happened, they offered to “come grab the kids” so he could “rest and recover.”
But when his parents came, Lowe was once again attacked by Moose.
He recalled, “I’m waiting in the front yard for my parents to show up with the kids. They show up, and we’re getting the kids in the car so that they can go with them, and the next thing I know, I hear a ‘No, no, no, no.’ And it’s Catherine from inside the house.
“And I look at the front door because I’m standing in the front yard, and I see Moose running out the front door.”
The front entrance of Lowe and Giudici’s home features a set of double doors. The ‘Bachelor’ alum explained that the wind blew them open, allowing Moose to slip out.
“Going through a dog attack is pretty darn traumatic. Having to relive it less than 12 hours later, seeing that dog running straight at you is a feeling that I don’t think I ever want to experience again,” Lowe said. “Not to mention my arm was just useless because it was all stitched up and having a hard time moving it. And so there’s a split second where I’m looking at him and I’m just praying, like, ‘Please let it be the friendly Moose that I know.’”
But Moose made “a beeline” for Lowe and began attacking him “again and and again.”
Lowe added, “I’m just saying, ‘No, no, no.’ And then my dad is in the front yard too, and I’m like, ‘Help, help!’
“Just again, feeling ripping into my flesh. And again, I’m not trying to exaggerate, I certainly don’t want to come across as, like, a victim or anything like that. I’m just telling you how it happened.”
“And so I’m able to wrestle him to the ground,” he recounted. “And this dog is so strong, he’s so explosive, but I’m able to wrestle him to the ground. I’ve got a hold of his collar, but I know that he’s ripped my arm open, and I just know, like I’m fighting for my life here, like I feel like if this dog gets up, he is going to kill me.”
Lowe added that his mom, “in a panic,” shouted for neighbors to call 911. He also said that though his kids did see Moose attack him, a neighbor “came out and quickly ushered them into their house so they didn’t see anything else.”
While waiting for help to arrive, Lowe sat on Moose for 10 minutes to restrain him.
“It took everything I had to control this dog,” he said. “And like, I’m 220 pounds. If it were anyone else, he would have killed my children or my wife, but I was able to hold him for 10 minutes until the cops came, and then the cops had a hard time getting control of him.”
Once Moose was taken away, Lowe went back to the ER and got more stitches.
As for why he and his wife decided to share what happened, Lowe explained, “We’ve been really transparent over the years on social media. Like I said, you guys I’m sure would ask questions about Moose, or where is Moose or why are your arms disfigured? So I just wanted to let you guys know what had happened. But overall, I’m super thankful it was me.”
“I don’t blame Moose a bit,” he went on. “It wasn’t Moose’s fault.
“He, I think it’s clear, experienced a lot of trauma before we got him and had something neurologically wrong with him, where just a switch flipped and he turned into an absolute killer, which was so weird.”
Lowe added that Moose “really didn’t show any signs” that might indicate he would become so violent.
“He was great around my kids. He was great in the house. He was just an affectionate, lovable boxer,” Lowe shared.
After the attacks, the former “Bachelor” called the rescue group he and his wife adopted Moose from “and told them what happened.”
“They’re doing great work over there. I don’t blame them a bit either,” he noted. “There’s a lot of great dogs who need to be adopted, and I’m certainly an advocate for that.
“But even they admitted, like there was a past there that they were not privy to.”
Though Lowe will “have scarred arms for the rest of my life,” he explained that he “can live with that” because he’s “super grateful” it was him and not his wife or children that Moose attacked.
Lowe also praised and thanked Guidici, acknowledging that the attacks have been “taking a toll on her.”
In the aftermath of the traumatic events, the reality star has been playing a game of “what if?” in his head, wondering what would have happened if Moose had become violent while sleeping in bed with his children.
“We’re torn up about it. We really are,” he told his followers. “We miss our dog as weird as that sounds.
“He was a really, really good dog. And we miss him.”
The couple welcomed Moose into their family in January.
Moose and Giudici adopted Moose in January.
“Santa and Daddy took the kids’ requests for a dog for Christmas into consideration,” the pair wrote on Instagram at the time. “We are happy to add this 7 year old (we think) rescue boxer into our zoo. We hope he loves us as much as we have already grown to love him.”
They added, “*Banjo was not his original name, it was the name given to him by the shelter that he didn’t respond to. We tried to call out common boxer names to see if any were ones he responded to and Moose was something we all thought he liked ❤️.”Previously, the couple rehomed a Bullmastiff puppy, Gus, in 2023 one year after adopting him.
In a post shared on his Instagram Story at the time, Lowe revealed that he and his wife decided to rehome Gus because they were concerned for their kids’ security after the dog “snapped at/bit” their daughter Mia.
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