Former The Bachelor star Sean Lowe has revealed he was seriously bitten by his family’s rescue dog—not once, but twice, in 12 hours!
And Lowe’s injuries were shocking, causing him to fear for his life and sending him to a hospital emergency room.
The reality TV hunk, 41, is beloved for being successful on the hit ABC reality show, as he married his final pick Catherine Giudici in 2014. They have three children together: sons Samuel, 8, and Isaiah, 6, and daughter Mia, 5.
Lowe also performed on Dancing with the Stars season 16 in 2013.
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Lowe’s Instagram is usually happy as he shares sweet family moments with fans. But on Monday, March 17, he posted a harrowing video talking about how he was attacked by the family’s new dog, a boxer named Moose, whom they’d owned for just three months.
The Bachelor alum said, “Hey everybody, so, I guess you could say our family has been through something pretty traumatic over the weekend,” as he sat next to concerned-looking wife Catherine, 38. “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.”
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Lowe noted that on Thursday, March 13, he had friends over for a 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 continued, “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.’”
But then things got worse, as the ex-Bachelor said that Moose “was biting my feet so hard that he actually put holes in my shoes.”
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.”
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The star was “bleeding badly,” but got Moose into his backyard.
But Lowe shuddered, “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. Not just a dog. My dog, right?”
Lowe said the dog bite on his arm was “so deep” that blood was “squirting.”
“My first thought is, ‘I think that dog may have nicked an artery,’” he said on Instagram. “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,” where Lowe received stitches in “five or six different places” on his arm.
Meanwhile, his buddies had sequestered Moose in the Lowes’ backyard. They also had mopped up what Lowe explained was a pool of blood inside his house!
Too worried about keeping the dog, Lowe explored various options, such as getting Moose into a “no-kill shelter.”
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But when Lowe’s parents came to the home to care for the kids amid his recovery, the dog attacked the star again.
His parents were putting the children in their car when the wind blew his front door open, and Moose ran 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 sighed. “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, the dog viciously attacked Lowe again!
Lowe added, “I’m just saying, ‘No, no, no.’ And then my dad is in the front 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 said. “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.”
Neighbors called 911, and before help arrived, Lowe restrained Moose by sitting on him.
“It took everything I had to control this dog,” he said. “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 ten minutes until the cops came, and then the cops had a hard time getting control of him.”
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Lowe got more stitches in a return visit to the ER.
Despite the trauma, “I don’t blame Moose a bit,” he told fans. “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.”
Before the bizarre attacks, Lowe said Moose “was great around my kids. He was great in the house. He was just an affectionate, lovable boxer.”
But now, Lowe will “have scarred arms for the rest of my life.”
The handsome blonde reality star who charmed Bachelor fans by marrying Catherine in a live TV ceremony after he’d chosen her on the show, said he was “super grateful” that Moose didn’t attack her or their kids.
Now Moose has been removed from the home, and Lowe said, “We miss him.”
Strangely, though, Lowe has had bad dog karma. Two years ago, the former Bachelor said that he and Catherine had to find a new home for their dog Gus, a Bullmastiff, who bit their eldest son, Samuel. Luckily, Sam’s injury wasn’t serious.
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