Sean Lowe Recalls Fighting for His Life After Being Attacked by His Dog

Sean Lowe is recalling a traumatic incident with his and wife Catherine Giudici’s new dog, Moose.

“Hey everybody, so, I guess you could say our family has been through something pretty traumatic over the weekend,” Lowe, 41, said in a Monday, March 17, Instagram post. “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.”

Giudici, 38, appeared beside Lowe in the video, appearing visibly emotional as she wiped tears from her eyes.

“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,” Lowe recalled. “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. 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.’”

Lowe explained that Moose began biting his feet so hard that the dog “put holes” in his shoes.

“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 noted that he was “bleeding badly” but was able to get the dog into the 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 said. “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 looked down at his arm and claimed that the cut was “so deep” that blood was “squirting” for a couple feet.

“My first thought is, ‘I think that dog may have nicked an artery.’ 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.”

Now at the ER, Lowe received stitches in “five or six different places” on his arm. When he returns to his home, Lowe’s friends corralled Moose into the backyard and had cleaned up the “literal pool” of blood in his home.

The next morning, Lowe knew he couldn’t keep Moose in the house due to his young children’s safety. While he began researching “the best plan of action,” Lowe’s parents came to the house to take the children. (Lowe and Giudici, who tied the knot in 2014, welcomed sons Samuel and Isaiah and daughter Mia in 2016, 2018 and 2019, respectively.)

“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,” Lowe said. “And I look at the front door because I’m standing in the front yard, and I see Moose running out the front door.”

Lowe explained that the pair have double doors that blew open from wind, leading Moose to get out.

“Going through a dog attack is pretty darn traumatic,” Lowe said. “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. 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.’”

However, Moose “made a beeline” at Lowe and began attacking him again.

“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,” Lowe said. “And so I’m able to wrestle him to the ground. 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.”

While his family called 911 and a neighbor took the couple’s kids into their home, Lowe said he laid on Moose for 10 minutes.

“It took everything I had to control this dog. 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.”

Lowe returned to the ER to receive more stitches.

“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?” Lowe said. “So I just wanted to let you guys know what had happened. But overall, I’m super thankful it was me.”

Lowe noted that it wasn’t Moose’s “fault,” claiming that the dog “experienced a lot of trauma” before the family adopted him, leading him to flip a switch into “an absolute killer.”

“We miss our dog as weird as that sounds. He was a really, really good dog,” Lowe concluded. “And we miss him.”

“Our family has been through it the last few days but we’ll be okay. Thank you to everyone for the support,” Lowe captioned the post. “We’re very grateful.”

The couple welcomed Moose into their family in January. “Everyone, please welcome Moose! 🐾,” Lowe and Giudici wrote in a joint Instagram post at the time. “Santa and Daddy took the kids’ requests for a dog for Christmas into consideration. 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 continued, “*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 ❤️.”

Lowe and Giudici previously rehomed Bullmastiff puppy Gus in 2023 after adopting the dog one year prior.