A shocked Sean Lowe describes repeat dog attacks: 'He was a really, really good dog'

Sean Lowe of “The Bachelor” experienced thing “pretty traumatic” successful caller days erstwhile the family’s beloved caller canine attacked him not erstwhile but twice, leaving important wounds connected some of his arms.

In a video posted Monday, days aft the attacks, Lowe inactive seemed rattled by the events that had unfolded astir Moose, the big Boxer who joined the household successful January. Wife Catherine Lowe, née Giudici, sat astir silently astatine his broadside arsenic helium told the story. Both seemed emotional.

Sean Lowe said friends had travel implicit Thursday for a barbecue portion Catherine took the kids to the mall. It was a bully nighttime successful Dallas, truthful helium had the doors and windows unfastened and immoderate fume drifted into the house, mounting disconnected the fume alarm. Lowe said helium grabbed a dishrag and tried to question the fume distant from the fume detector — lone to person Moose commencement nipping astatine the rag and astatine his digit “aggressively.” That behaviour was antithetic for the dog.

“I benignant of gave him a ‘No, Moose’ and again the siren’s conscionable blaring,” Lowe said. “Then helium goes and starts to wound my feet. He’s benignant of done this earlier — if you person a herding dog, you’re astir apt acquainted with this, wherever they benignant of nip the heels, but helium ne'er truly bites.

“Well, helium was biting my feet truthful hard helium really enactment holes successful my shoes and it was hurting my feet. So astatine this point, again, there’s truthful overmuch chaos going connected with the alarm going off, I springiness him a precise stern, like, ‘Moose, no! No!’ And it was close astir that infinitesimal erstwhile helium shows his teeth astatine maine and conscionable attacks me,” helium said.

“And I don’t mean similar wound and tally off, similar a batch of dogs bash erstwhile they’re frightened oregon defensive. I mean, attacks me. I consciousness him conscionable benignant of ripping into the soma of my arm, and astatine this constituent I americium doing everything I perchance tin conscionable to fend this canine off.”

He managed to get Moose retired the doorway and into the yard, but the canine rushed backmost successful and attacked him again.

Lowe said helium was confused. “We’ve lone had him for a small nether 3 months,” helium said, “but he’s my dog. I locomotion him. If I tally errands, helium goes successful the motortruck with me. When I get retired of my chair, my kids don’t similar it due to the fact that helium follows me, helium doesn’t travel them. Like, it’s my dog. All helium has ever wanted was affection.”

He noted that helium had taken immoderate video earlier that time erstwhile Moose enactment his caput successful Lowe’s thigh and “just wanted to beryllium pet.”

“So it was truthful bizarre — like, wherefore is my dog, who I cognize loves me, attacking maine truthful aggressively?” Lowe said.

The radical managed to get Moose backmost outside, but Lowe thought the canine mightiness person nicked an artery successful his arm, which was “squirting” blood, helium said. “We person the video [from information cameras] — the video’s mode excessively violent, I’m not going to stock that. But you perceive maine saying, ‘This is serious, you’ve got to get maine to a hospital. Call Catherine.’”

At the exigency room, Lowe got stitched up. But each the while, helium said, helium struggled to reconcile what had conscionable happened with his beauteous experiences arsenic Moose’s dad. He said helium was confused and heartbroken.

Lowe said helium contacted the section carnal power bureau and talked to a adjuvant and knowing officer. He contacted the rescue radical that facilitated the adoption. Arrangements were made, though Lowe didn’t get into specifics astir Moose’s fate.

The greeting aft the archetypal attack, Lowe said helium was successful the beforehand gait with his parents, who helium said were going to assistance with the kids portion the adults dealt with the dog. When upwind blew the beforehand doorway open, Lowe said helium saw Moose moving retired the doorway again, adjacent arsenic his woman shouted, “No nary no no.”

“Going done a canine onslaught is beauteous darn traumatic,” Lowe said successful the video. “Having to relive it little than 12 hours later, seeing that canine moving consecutive astatine you, is simply a feeling I don’t deliberation I ever privation to acquisition again.”

Moose lunged and Lowe called retired for help. With large effort, helium wrestled the canine to the ground. He held Moose’s collar until the constabulary arrived.

“I conscionable cognize that I’m conscionable warring for my beingness here,” helium said. “I consciousness like, if this canine gets up, helium is going to termination me.”

After 2 trips to the exigency room, Lowe’s arms were covered with bruises and galore stitches. One coiled — the 1 that had been squirting humor — went astir the width of his forearm.

The kids saw the onslaught this time, arsenic did Catherine. Sean said that if they had been attacked alternatively of him, a 220-pound man, Moose “would person killed them.”

“I don’t blasted Moose a bit,” helium said. “It wasn’t Moose’s fault. I deliberation it’s wide helium experienced a batch of trauma earlier we got him.” And immoderate happened, helium said, thing successful the fume alarm “flipped this switch” successful Moose. The radical with the rescue radical told him they were unaware of the events successful the dog’s beingness that would person led to this.

“We’re torn up astir it,” Lowe said. “We truly are. We miss our canine ... helium was a really, truly bully dog. And we miss him.”