Sean Lowe Reveals He Was Attacked By His Dog and Rushed to ER
Sean Lowe described surviving two horrifying dog attacks from his rescue boxer, Moose, in an Instagram video posted on Monday, March 17. Alongside wife Catherine Giudici, The Bachelor star, 41, recounted both incidents, which left him “bleeding badly” and required two separate trips to the emergency room.
Luckily when it all started, Catherine, 38, was at the mall with their three young kids Samuel, Isaiah and Mia. Sean was at home hanging out with friends and barbequing on Thursday, March 13, when he accidentally set off the smoke alarm, triggering Moose to become violent.
“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.’”
With Moose growing more and more aggressive from the “chaos” of the scene, Sean attempted to control the dog with verbal commands, but to no avail. “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 feel him just kind of ripping into the flesh of my arm.”
Now in full fight mode, Sean added, “At this point, I am doing everything I possibly can just to fend this dog off.”
The reality star, who stands 6-foot-3 and weighs about 220 pounds, managed to wrestle the dog out of the house and into the back yard, but Moose continued to press his attack and charged back through the door and into the house, ripping at his arms.
Sean expressed sincere shock at how his beloved dog could turn on him so viciously as Catherine wiped tears from her eyes, seated next to him. “I honestly just felt like I am fighting for my life here against a dog,” he recounted. “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.”
The cuts into Sean’s arms were so deep, he remembered that his “first thought” was: “I think that dog may have nicked an artery.” His friends rushed him to the ER, where he received stitches to stop the bleeding in “five or six different places.”
Less than 12 hours later, as Sean’s parents arrived to pick up their kids to keep them out of the house and away from the situation, Moose got loose and attacked him again, necessitating another trip to the ER and even more stitches after he held the 7-year-old dog to the ground while waiting for the police.
The couple lamented the whole ordeal, explaining that Moose “experienced a lot of trauma” before they rescued him.
“We miss our dog, as weird as that sounds. He was a really, really good dog,” Sean added. “And we miss him.”