Former “The Bachelor” star Sean Lowe stated on Monday that he was lately attacked by his canine on two separate events inside 12 hours — assaults which despatched him to the ER and left him combating for his life.
Lowe, 41, revealed the surprising information about his newly adopted canine 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 started, sitting subsequent to spouse 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 previous “Bachelor” added that Moose’s bites have been so robust that the canine “put holes” in his sneakers.
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.”
Although he stated he was “bleeding badly,” he was in a position to get Moose into his yard.
“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 wanting down on the chew on his arm, which he stated 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.”
As soon as he made it to the ER, the fact star acquired stitches in “five or six different places” on his arm.
By the point he returned him, his pals had gotten Moose into the yard and cleaned up what he known as a “literal pool” of blood inside his house.
The following morning, “confused” and “heartbroken,” Lowe knew that he couldn’t maintain Moose in the home out of worry for his personal security and the security of his spouse and youngsters.
Lowe and Giudici, who married in 2014, share sons Samuel (8) and Isaiah (6) and daughter Mia (5).
Attempting to plot “the best plan of action,” Lowe contacted animal management, the adoption company the place he and his spouse acquired Moose and researched “various no kill shelters.”
After he advised his dad and mom what occurred, they supplied to “come grab the kids” so he might “rest and recover.”
However when his dad and mom got here, Lowe was as soon as once more attacked by Moose.
He recalled, “I’m ready within the entrance yard for my dad and mom to point out up with the children. They present up, and we’re getting the children within the automotive in order that they’ll go along with them, and the subsequent factor I do know, I hear a ‘No, no, no, no.’ And it’s Catherine from inside the home.
“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 entrance entrance of Lowe and Giudici’s house includes a set of double doorways. The ‘Bachelor’ alum defined that the wind blew them open, permitting Moose to slide 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 stated. “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” for Lowe and commenced attacking him “again and and again.”
Lowe added, “I’m simply saying, ‘No, no, no.’ After which my dad is within the entrance 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 mother, “in a panic,” shouted for neighbors to name 911. He additionally stated that although his youngsters did see Moose assault him, a neighbor “came out and quickly ushered them into their house so they didn’t see anything else.”
Whereas ready for assist to reach, Lowe sat on Moose for 10 minutes to restrain him.
“It took everything I had to control this dog,” he stated. “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.”
As soon as Moose was taken away, Lowe went again to the ER and acquired extra stitches.
As for why he and his spouse determined to share what occurred, Lowe defined, “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 may point out he would turn out to be 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 assaults, the previous “Bachelor” known as the rescue group he and his spouse adopted Moose from “and told them what happened.”
“They’re doing great work over there. I don’t blame them a bit either,” he famous. “There’s plenty of nice canine who should be adopted, and I’m actually an advocate for that.
“But even they admitted, like there was a past there that they were not privy to.”
Although Lowe will “have scarred arms for the rest of my life,” he defined that he “can live with that” as a result of he’s “super grateful” it was him and never his spouse or youngsters that Moose attacked.
Lowe additionally praised and thanked Guidici, acknowledging that the assaults have been “taking a toll on her.”
Within the aftermath of the traumatic occasions, the fact star has been enjoying a sport of “what if?” in his head, questioning what would have occurred if Moose had turn out to be violent whereas sleeping in mattress together with his youngsters.
“We’re torn up about it. We really are,” he advised his followers. “We miss our canine as bizarre as that sounds.
“He was a really, really good dog. And we miss him.”
The couple welcomed Moose into their household 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 on 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 ❤️.”Beforehand, the couple rehomed a Bullmastiff pet, Gus, in 2023 one 12 months after adopting him.
In a publish shared on his Instagram Story on the time, Lowe revealed that he and his spouse determined to rehome Gus as a result of they have been involved for his or her youngsters’ safety after the canine “snapped at/bit” their daughter Mia.
