“Bachelor” alum Sean Lowe revealed that he was attacked by his rescue dog, Moose, three times and was left “squirting” blood.
“Hey everybody. I guess you could say our family has been through something pretty traumatic over the weekend,” he said as he sat next to his wife, Catherine Giudici, during a video message shared to Instagram Monday.
“I debated on whether or not we should share this publicly but I just figured you guys are going to ask questions and you’ll probably see things so I might as well get out ahead of it,” the former reality TV star added.
Lowe, 41, said he was barbecuing with friends last Thursday when the smoke went inside the house and prompted the fire alarm to go off.
When he got a towel to try to wave the smoke away from the alarm, the “Bachelorette” alum said Moose came over and bit the towel and nipped his finger “really aggressively,” which he said is something the dog doesn’t normally do.
“I kind of gave him a, ‘No, Moose,’ and again, the siren’s just blaring. And then [Moose] goes and bites on my feet. … He was biting my feet so hard he actually put holes in my shoes and it was hurting my feet,” he explained.
Lowe said he gave Moose a “stern” no, which caused the animal to then show his sharp teeth and “attack” him.
“I don’t mean bite and run off like a lot of dogs do when they’re scared or defensive,” he shared. “I mean [he] attacks me. And I feel him 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. … I know I’m bleeding badly. And my friends don’t know what’s going on.”
Lowe said he was finally able to get the dog out the door and into the backyard of the house. However, the dog came back into the house and attacked him for a second time.
When he was able to get him back out the house again, Lowe said he looked down at his arm and saw a “cut so deep” on his wrist that he “saw blood squirting probably a couple feet.”
“I thank god that my friends were there because they were able to rush me to the ER,” he said, adding that he was able to get stitches on both arms.
The following morning, Lowe and his wife started thinking of “the best plan of action” to get rid of Moose because he couldn’t keep the dog around his family after the attack.
Once Lowe’s parents arrived to pick up his kids, Moose escaped from the backyard through their double doors and ran to attack him for a third time.
“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 recalled.
“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,” he explained.
“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 laid on Moose for 10 minutes until the cops came. He then returned to the ER to get additional stitches.
Though the incident was traumatic, Lowe noted that it wasn’t Moose’s “fault” because the rescue dog had “experienced a lot of trauma” before the family adopted him.
“We miss our dog as weird as that sounds. He was a really, really good dog,” he concluded. “And we miss him.”
Lowe and his family announced that they adopted Moose in January after their two sons, Samuel and Isaiah, and their daughter, Mia, asked for a pet for Christmas.
“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,” Giudici wrote on Instagram at the time.
*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 
.”
