Sean Lowe is offering new details in the wake of repeated attacks by his family dog that left him injured.
Taking to his Instagram Stories with youngest son Isaiah on Tuesday, April 15, the former Bachelor, 41, thanked fans for their support before providing a health update.
“Hey everybody, we are back,” Lowe began. “I haven’t been on instagram since the whole dog thing but I wanted to pop on here and tell everyone, thank you so much. I mean we got thousands and thousands of messages … people wishing me well and sharing similar stories. But anyway thank you, thank you, because I could tell it was just sincere and heartfelt.”
As for how Lowe is doing at the moment, he confirmed he is “doing great” before revealing information received from his doctor.
“I’m healing, my scars aren’t as bad as I thought they would be,” Lowe detailed before pointing the camera to his wrist. “Isaiah likes to kiss this one here. The doctor told me that one is about as good as it’s going to get, it’s kind of red. It won’t be red forever but I’ll have a cool scar there forever.”
Lowe also gave his son a chance to share his thoughts. “You got anything you want to say?” he asked the 6-year-old, who replied, “Thank you for talking to daddy for nice things.”
Lowe revealed in a March 17, Instagram post that his dog, Moose, attacked him twice within the span of 12 hours. Lowe’s wife, Catherine Giudici — whom Lowe married in January 2014 and shares sons Samuel, 8, and Isaiah, 6, and daughter Mia, 5, with — appeared visibly emotional while sitting beside him in the video.
“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,” he explained. “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.’”
According to Lowe, Moose then 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 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,” he recounted. “And at this point, I am doing everything I possibly can just to fend this dog off.”
Although Lowe said he was “bleeding badly,” he was able to get Moose 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 recalled. “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.”
Given the extent of his injuries, Lowe asked his friends to “rush me to the ER.” There, he received stitches in “five or six different places” on his arm. The next day, Moose accidentally got out and “made a beeline” for Lowe, attacking him again “less than 12 hours” after the initial incident.
“Just again, feeling ripping into my flesh,” he 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.”
Lowe’s family subsequently called 911, with the police intervening to subdue Moose, and he returned to the hospital to get more stitches. Lowe emphasized that the ordeal was not the dog’s “fault” since he likely experienced trauma before they adopted him in January, and although the family makes plans to rehome Moose, they still miss him despite the circumstances.
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