Bachelor vet talks ‘trauma’ of being attacked TWICE by his own dog resulting in ‘heavy bleeding’ and ER visit

Earlier this year Bachelor veteran Sean Lowe was attacked by his family dog twice in a span of 12 hours.

And now the reality TV star has talked the PTSD that comes with that. ‘It was quite the ordeal,’ Lowe, 42, said during a recent appearance on Jordan Syatt’s eponymous podcast. 

‘I was just telling someone I don’t really have PTSD. It’s funny because I’m such a dog lover and I’d never thought twice about putting my face in a dog’s face, but now I do think twice about doing stuff like that.’

The dog that attacked him is the family pet, a Boxer named Moose. 

He continued, ‘A dog attack is a very traumatic thing, and then reliving it 12 hours later, I just can’t express to you the emotions that I was feeling.’

He bit him twice, drawing blood and requiring a visit to the hospital emergency room.

‘The only PTSD I have is the thought of, ‘What if it had been my children,’ Lowe told Syatt, referring to his three kids with wife Catherine Giudici.

‘He absolutely would have killed my children or my wife for that matter. I think about that quite a bit, but for the most part, I’m doing pretty good.’

In March he shared in an Instagram video with his wife that the Boxer had ‘ripped’ his arm open, leaving him feeling as if he was ‘fighting for [his] life.’

But Lowe looked far more relaxed in an Instagram Stories video in which he said he has been ‘healing’ since the awful attack.

‘A lot of you have asked how I’m doing. I’m doing great. I’m healing,’ he said while his son Isaiah sat on his lap.

‘My scars aren’t as bad as I thought they would be,’ he added, before revealing how much the wound just below his wrist had healed.

In his original video explaining his ordeal, Sean still had bloody scratches and bite marks running all down both of his arms, but it was a gnarly gash just below his wrist that looked most serious and required multiple stitches.

But the wound looked significantly better in his latest video.

The mottled skin was now pink, and the stitches had been taken out, though he still had a groove in his skin where the gash originally was and small indentations where his stitches had been.

‘The doctor told me that one, that’s about as good as it’s gonna get,’ he said. ‘[It’s] kind of red. It won’t be red forever, but I’ll have a cool scar there forever.’

Sean also revealed that his son Isaiah ‘likes to kiss this one here’ as he pointed to the scar.

The Bachelor star sounded emotional as he thanked his and Catherine’s fans for their kind words after he announced that Moose had attacked him.

‘We got thousands and thousands of messages, just people wishing me well and sharing similar stories and things like that, but anyway, thank you, because I could just tell it was sincere and heartfelt,’ he continued, adding that any messages he hadn’t replied to yet had not gone ‘unnoticed.’

Sean’s son Isaiah was a supply of comedic relief through much of the video as he seemed to consider picking his nose while his dad talked, but he took center stage when he added: ‘Thank you for talking to my Daddy [and saying] nice things.’

Missing from the update was information about the fate of Moose, the dog that attacked him 

Last month, shortly after revealing his injuries, Sean announced that he had been forced to re-home his dog, whom his family had only had for three months.

Shockingly, that wasn’t the first time Lowe has been forced to rehome a dog after a chilling attack on a family member.

The reality star — who recounted how the seven-year-old Boxer Moose had ‘ripped’ his arm open and left him ‘fighting for [his] life’ — decided after the terrifying incident 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. 

The incident — which left a ‘pool of blood’ at the Bachelor star’s feet — follows another frightening dog attack from April 2023. 

At the time, Lowe revealed that Gus, his family’s Bullmastiff, had attacked both their daughter Mia, who was three at the time, and their son Samuel, who was six.

Gus reportedly had a history of being aggressive toward the little girl and snapping at her, before it escalated to a bite.

But it was an even more severe attack to Samuel — in which the dog bit ‘him on the side of the head’ — that prompted Lowe and his wife Catherine to remove it for good.

Samuel’s injury resulted in a ‘trip to the ER and a staple in the head,’ Lowe shared on Instagram at the time, according to the Today Show. ‘So, as much as I love that dog, I have to protect my kids first. But he’s in a great home, and we’ll get to see him occasionally.’

Later, Lowe left his fans know that his son had gotten his staple removed and was ‘doing great’ after his head wound had fully healed.

‘He misses his dog too. And so do his brother and sister,’ Lowe added. 

In an updated posted to his Instagram Stories in 2023, the Bachelorette contestant said Gus was also ‘doing great’ in his new home.

‘I miss him like you wouldn’t believe, but one of my answered prayers was that he found a great home (in my mind,’ the best,’ he shared.

Lowe revealed that his dog trainer had adopted Gus as her ‘personal dog.’

It seemed to be an ideal situation for the pooch, as ‘he gets to go to work everyday and be around other dogs.’

Lowe included a photo of his large former dog dwarfing a Pug, and he said his trainer explained that the Pug ‘hates all dogs except for Gus.’

‘Must be the close resemblance,’ he joked. 

Earlier in the video, Lowe showed off a gnarly set of stitches and bloody bites marks on his arms from Moose repeated attacks, which he thought at the time could ‘kill’ him.

‘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 from 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.