Sean Lowe struggles to embrace the harsh reality that has been thrust upon him, a painful legacy of two back-to-back attacks by his family's former dog, Moose, earlier this year. The Bachelor Nation star admits he is still grappling with the aftermath of the incidents, particularly the hypothetical scenario of how his three kids with wife Catherine Giudici would have fared in his place. "The only PTSD I have is the thought of, 'What if it had been my children?'" he said on the December 17th episode of The Jordan Syatt Podcast. "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."
Despite this, the reality star confesses that the violent encounter—which occurred just three months after his family adopted Moose—was "quite the ordeal," admitting that it has made him more reserved around other canines. "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," he explained, "but now I do think twice about doing stuff like that."
Back in March, Sean, 42, and Catherine, 39, spoke out about the disturbing experience. It all began when a backyard barbecue triggered a smoke alarm inside their home, and at that point, the family's beloved Boxer "turned into an absolute killer." "He shows his teeth at me and just attacks me," Sean said in an Instagram video at the time. "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."
The couple's friends were able to take Moose outside, but Sean was already significantly injured. "I just see blood squirting," he recalled. "Thank God that my friends were there because they were able to rush me to the ER." But after Sean received stitches and returned home, more chaos ensued. While sending his kids off to stay with his parents, he was attacked by the dog a second time, leaving him "fighting for [his] life" before police arrived and he made his way back to the hospital.
Still, he insisted he didn't blame Moose for the acts of aggression. "It's clear he experienced a lot of trauma before we got him and had something neurologically wrong with him," Sean said. "There was something about that smoke alarm that flipped this switch in him." While the family ultimately had to rehome Moose, they haven't written off the entire species. "We love dogs," Sean told E! News in June, "and we know dogs are man's best friend and are absolutely an advocate for adopting dogs. But that risk exists. And I think it would behoove parents to learn about it and teach your kids how to behave around dogs."
