Photo Credit; Getty Images
Sean Lowe is struggling to accept this reality.
After surviving two back-to-back attacks by his family's former dog Moose earlier this year, the Bachelor Nation star admitted he's still dealing with the fallout, particularly the hypothetical of how his three children with wife Catherine Giudici would have fared in his absence.
"The only PTSD I have is the thought of, 'What if it had been my children?'" he said on the December 17 episode of The Jordan Syatt Podcast. "He would have killed my children, and my wife for that matter. I think about it quite a bit, but for the most part, I'm doing well."
Nonetheless, the reality star admitted that the violent encounter—which occurred only 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.”
Sean, 42, and Catherine, 39, spoke out in March about the disturbing experience, which began when a backyard barbecue set off a smoke alarm inside their home—at which point the family's beloved Boxer "turned into an absolute killer."
"He shows his teeth at me and just attacks me," Sean explained 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 had already sustained significant injuries.
“I just see blood squirting,” he recalled. “Thank God that my friends were there because they were able to rush me to the ER.”
However, after Sean received stitches and returned home, more chaos ensued. While sending his children to stay with his parents, he was attacked by the dog again, leaving him "fighting for [his] life" before police arrived and he returned to the hospital. Nonetheless, he insisted that Moose was not to blame for the aggressive behavior.
"It's clear he experienced a lot of trauma before we got him and had something neurologically wrong with him," Sean told me. "There was something about that smoke alarm that flipped this switch in him."
While the family had to rehome Moose, they have not abandoned the species entirely.
"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.”
