The Bachelor star Sean Lowe, who was on Season 17, revealed that he was attacked by a canine and debated whether or not or not he needed to share it publicly. The truth TV star shared the information on Instagram on Monday, March 17.
“Hey all people, so, I suppose you possibly can say our household has been via one thing fairly traumatic over the weekend,” he mentioned within the video as he sat subsequent to his spouse, Catherine Guidici. “I’ve debated on whether or not or not we should always share this publicly, however I simply figured you guys are going to ask questions and possibly see issues, so I’d as nicely get out forward of it.”
“On Thursday, I used to be having some buddies of mine over to barbecue. Catherine took the children to the mall, and we’re simply barbecuing right here on my patio, and it was a very nice evening, so I had the doorways and home windows open, and a few of the smoke from the barbecue began to float inside, and our smoke alarm began going off,” Lowe mentioned.
“So I seize a dish rag and I’m going over to waft the smoke away from the smoke alarm, as a result of the siren was insanely loud. And as I’m holding the dish rag, Moose comes up and, like, bites it and type of nips my finger actually aggressively, which is one thing that he doesn’t do. So, you already know, I type of gave him a, ‘No Moose.’”
Lowe mentioned that his canine bit his ft so exhausting that he put holes in his sneakers.
“At this level once more, there’s a lot chaos occurring with the alarm going off, I give him like a really stern like, ‘Moose. No. No.’ And it was proper about that second the place he exhibits his tooth at me and simply assaults me, and I don’t imply like chunk and run off like lots of canines do once they’re scared or defensive. I imply, assaults me, and I really feel him simply type of ripping into the flesh of my arm,” the Bachelor star mentioned.
“And at this level, I’m doing all the things I presumably can simply to fend this canine off. I used to be bleeding badly, however I used to be capable of get Moose to the yard.” Lowe shared that the canine ran again via the door to assault him once more. “And never making an attempt to be dramatic, however I actually simply felt like I’m combating for my life right here towards a canine,” he mentioned.
“Not only a canine. My canine, proper? Like, he’s my canine. We’ve solely had him for slightly underneath three months, however like he’s my canine.”
The truth TV star mentioned that he was minimize so deep that blood squirted a few ft. He thought Moose nicked an artery. Lowe mentioned that they’ve the incident on video, which he isn’t going to share as a result of it’s too graphic. He mentioned he was fortunate his buddies had been there to get him to a hospital. On the ER, he obtained stitches in “5 – 6 completely different locations” on his arm.
When Lowe returned dwelling, his buddies put his canine within the yard and cleaned up the “pool of blood” in the home. He didn’t need Moose in the home along with his youngsters — sons Samuel and Isaiah and daughter Mia — so he referred to as his mother and father to come back and take the children till they might determine what to do with Moose.
As he was getting his children into his mother or father’s automobile the subsequent day, Moose ran out the entrance door in the direction of them, after the doorways blew open from the wind. The canine made a beeline in the direction of him and attacked him once more.
“Simply once more, feeling ripping into my flesh. And once more, I’m not making an attempt to magnify, I actually don’t need to come throughout as, like, a sufferer or something like that. I’m simply telling you the way it occurred,” he mentioned. “And so I’m capable of wrestle him to the bottom. And this canine is so sturdy, he’s so explosive, however I’m capable of wrestle him to the bottom. I’ve acquired a maintain of his collar, however I do know that he’s ripped my arm open, and I simply know, like I’m combating for my life right here, like I really feel like if this canine will get up, he’s going to kill me.”
His household referred to as 911 and a neighbor took his youngsters into their dwelling. Lowe sat on Moose for 10 minutes to try to calm him down. “It took all the things I needed to management this canine. And like I’m 220 kilos. If it had been anybody else, he would have killed my youngsters or my spouse, however I used to be capable of maintain him for 10 minutes till the cops got here, after which the cops had a tough time getting management of him,” he mentioned.
After the cops arrived, Lowe was taken to the ER once more and obtained extra stitches.
The Bachelor star defined that Moose “skilled lots of trauma” earlier than they adopted him and that the assault wasn’t his fault.
“We miss our canine, as bizarre as that sounds. He was a extremely, actually good canine and we miss him,” Lowe mentioned. The household adopted Moose in January.
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