Bachelor star almost killed by his own family dog after two brutal attacks in 12 hours

The Bachelor universe star Sean Lowe has revealed he was almost killed by his own dog after he was brutally attacked twice within 12 hours.

The 41-year-old reality star — who married Catherine Giudici after proposing to her on season 17 of The Bachelor — revealed Monday in a somber but chilling video that his dog Moose had ‘ripped’ his arm open, leaving him feeling as if he was ‘fighting for [his] life.’

‘I feel like if this dog gets up, he’s going to kill me,’ he said of the seven-year-old Boxer, which his family had only had for three months after adopting him from a shelter.

He noted that he could barely keep the Moose off himself, despite weighing 220 pounds, so he feared that the animal could have killed his wife or children if it had mauled them instead. 

In the video, Lowe showed off a gnarly set of stitches and bloody bites marks on his arms from the repeated attacks.

‘Our family has been through something pretty traumatic over the weekend,’ Sean said in the video, before noting that he had debated whether to even share his experience. His wife Catherine sat next to him throughout, but she was mostly silent while tears streamed down her face.

According to Lowe, he had invited friends over for a barbecue on March 13. At the time, his wife and their three children were doing some shopping at a mall. 

Although he was grilling outside, Lowe said he accidentally set off his home’s smoke alarm because he had left the windows open and the breeze blew the smoke indoors. 

Lowe said he thinks the smoke alarm set the emergency in motion, as the piercing noise may have distressed his dog. 

‘He shows his teeth at me and just attacks me. I don’t mean bite and then run off — like a lot of dogs do when they’re scared or defensive — I mean attacks me,’ he recounted. ‘I feel him ripping into the flesh of my arm and at this point I’m doing everything I possibly can just to fend this dog off.

‘I know I’m bleeding badly,’ he added.

Lowe thought it must have taken multiple minutes to detach the dog’s jaws fro his arm and get it outside. 

But even after he got Moose off his arm, the dog jumped back to continue attacking him. 

‘I’m not trying to be dramatic but I honestly just felt like I am fighting for my life here against my dog,’ he admitted.

Lowe’s friends then joined in to detach Moose again, at which point he realized just how severe his injuries were.

‘I look down at my arm and… it was cut so deep and I just see blood squirting, probably a couple feet,’ he recalled.

The Bachelor star worried his dog might have severed an artery with his teeth, as he saw ‘a pool of blood’ accumulating at his feet.

Luckily, he was surrounded by friends who immediately rushed him to a hospital emergency room, where he received multiple stitches for his injuries.

He then returned home, but it was less than 12 hours before Moose allegedly attacked him again.

Lowe, who said he was shocked and ‘heartbroken’ by the attack, claimed that the door keeping Moose away from him wasn’t securely locked, so a gust of wind allowed the canine to escape and begin biting him again outside. 

‘Going through a dog attack is pretty darn traumatic. Having to re-live it less than 12 hours later, seeing that dog running straight at you, is a feeling I don’t think I ever want to experience again,’ he said. ‘He made a beeline right at me and just lunged and started attacking me again.’

Lowe said Moose had ‘ripped’ his arm open again, and he felt as if he was ‘fighting for [his] life.’ 

‘I feel like if this dog gets up, he’s going to kill me,’ he said.

He noted that he could barely keep the dog off himself, despite weighing 220 pounds, so he feared that the animal could have killed his wife or children if it had mauled them instead. 

Lowe said he was able to keep Moose pinned to the ground for around 10 minutes, until police and an ambulance arrived. 

However, the shocking incident made him decide that Moose had to be removed from the home immediately, even though the dog had seemingly been nothing but sweet up until then.

Lowe shared that he was currently consulting with a no-kill shelter and animal control officers to figure out a solution for Moose, which hopefully wouldn’t require the dog to be euthanized.

Because of the unusual nature of the attack, and the possibility that external factors might have set off Moose, the reality star said he wasn’t laying the blame on the dog.

‘It wasn’t Moose’s fault. I think it’s clear he experienced a lot of trauma before we got him and had something neurologically wrong where just a switch flipped and he turned into an absolute killer, which was so weird,’ he theorized, adding that the dog had been ‘great’ around his children and had acted like an ‘affectionate, loving Boxer.’

Lowe mentioned that earlier on the day of the first attack, Moose had just been looking for affection and had sweetly laid his head down on his lap so that he could be petted. 

He added that the family would ‘miss’ their dog, even though he would now have plenty of scars on his arms to remind him of the terrifying experience. 

But on social media, many commenters weren’t as even-handed when it came to apportioning blame as Lowe was.

Although he had turned off comments on his original Instagram video, accounts replying to clips and news stories reposted by other accounts to X (formerly Twitter) largely blamed Lowe for even getting a rescue dog in the first place. 

‘We need to re-assess dog breeds in America,’ wrote one commenter. 

‘Not all dogs should be around people,’ added another person.