Sean Lowe Hints at What Happened to His Dog After Attacks

Sean Lowe and his wife, Catherine Giudici, are picking up the pieces after the former Bachelor was attacked by their dog, Moose.

“I know with what just transpired, obviously I can’t keep Moose in this house. I’ve got young kids, and I’ve got to be concerned about my own safety, so I’m talking to our local animal control, and they connected me with a great officer who happened to have a Boxer,” Lowe, 41, said in a lengthy Instagram video on Monday, March 17. “He was very sympathetic and we were just talking through the different things. I called our animal adoption agency where we got Moose [and] I was looking at the various no kill shelters. I was just trying to figure out the best plan of action, and this officer actually said, ‘OK, make your calls and then call me back. We’ll figure this out together.’ Like, he was super helpful.”

Lowe noted that the rescue group later found out that there was “a past” with Moose “that they were not privy to,” making it clear that there are still “a lot of great dogs that need to be adopted.” He added that there were “no signs” as the dog was previously “great” with their kids. (The couple welcomed sons Samuel and Isaiah and daughter Mia in 2016, 2018 and 2019, respectively.)

Lowe detailed the entire “traumatic” experience, which began over the weekend when he was hosting a group of friends at their home for a barbeque. While the smoke alarm went off, Moose began biting Lowe “aggressively” as he tried to get the smoke out of the room with a towel.

“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,” Lowe recalled. “And at this point, I am doing everything I possibly can just to fend this dog off.”

Lowe began “bleeding badly,” claiming that the cut was “so deep” that blood was “squirting” for a couple feet. While Lowe initially thought that the dog “nicked an artery,” he was rushed to the ER and received stitches in “five or six different places” on his arm. The next morning, Lowe recalled being “confused” and “heartbroken” by the events.

After Lowe told his parents about the attack, they offered to take the couple’s kids out of the house as they figured out next steps. While his parents were over, Lowe claimed that Moose got out of the house and attacked him again — resulting in another trip to the ER.

“I think it’s clear, he 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,” Lowe said of Moose, adding that he doesn’t “blame” the dog.

While Lowe said he thinks he will be OK “from a psychological perspective,” he noted that the events have “taken a toll” on his wife, who sat with him as he retold the story for his Instagram followers.

“I’m super grateful it was me and it was not my kids or my wife, and that I made it out relatively unscathed,” he said. “Have scarred arms for the rest of my life, but I can live with that.”

Lowe said the incident made him “so thankful” for his family. “I play this what if game in my head, there was something about that smoke alarm that flipped this switch in him, and he loved the kids, and I just keep thinking like, ‘What if that smoke alarm had somehow gone off while he’s — he would sleep in the bed with the kids every night. What would he have done?’ I don’t know, and I hate playing that what if game. So I’m just, I’m grateful it happened the way it did.”

Lowe concluded that the pair is “torn up” about the events. “We miss our dog as weird as that sounds. He was a really really good dog and we miss him.”

Lowe and Giudici, who tied the knot in 2014, previously rehomed their dog Gus in 2023.