Bachelor Alum Sean Lowe Reflects on Being Attacked by the Family Dog Twice in 12 Hours: ‘Can’t Express the Emotions I Was Feeling’

Sean Lowe is looking back on horrific dog attacks that changed his life forever. 

Appearing as a guest on the Sunday, Dec. 21, episode of Jordan Syatt’s eponymous podcast, the 42-year-old Bachelor alum opened up about a March 2025 incident, when his family dog viciously attacked him twice in 12 hours, without provocation.

“I was just telling someone, I don’t really have PTSD,” Lowe told Syatt, before sharing details about the frightening moments.

“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 former reality star said.

He continued, “The only PTSD I have is the thought of, ‘What if it had bit my children?’ ”

Lowe, who shares two young sons and a daughter with his wife Catherine, was having friends over for a barbecue on March 13 when smoke from the grill drifted inside the house and triggered the smoke alarm, which also triggered his dog, a boxer named Moose. 

Thankfully, Catherine and the kids weren’t home because they had gone to the mall.

The father of three said Moose “definitely would have killed my children, or my wife, for that matter,” had they been present during the attack. 

“So, I think about that quite a bit, but for the most part, I’m doing pretty good,” Lowe said.

The family had adopted Moose from a shelter less than three months before the attack, which left them stunned because the canine had always been affectionate until then.

Later in the podcast, Lowe added, “I refuse to say I have any sort of PTSD, simply because there are real men who’ve been in battle who actually have things like that. I was attacked by my family pet, so I’m not going to apply myself as that.”

Lowe shared the news on social media in an emotional Instagram video with his wife by his side on March 17.

“Our family has been through something pretty traumatic over the weekend,” he said at the start of the clip, which visibly showed fresh scars and stitches on both arms.

“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,” Lowe said of the encounter. “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.”

The former television star said he felt like he was “fighting for” his life, thinking he punctured an artery because there was “a pool of blood” on the floor. 

Eventually, his friends were able to intervene and take him to the ER. 

Unfortunately, before they could have the dog removed from the home, “He made a B-line right at me and just lunged and started attacking me again” the following morning.

“It took everything I had to control this dog and I’m 220 pounds,” he continued. “If it were anyone else, he would’ve killed my children or my wife.”

Lowe held off Moose for about 10 minutes until the cops and ambulance arrived. He then went back to the emergency room for additional stitches to his other arm.

In the end, Lowe didn’t blame Moose; instead, he said the adoptive pet “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.”

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“Overall, I’m super grateful it was me and it was not my kids or my wife. And that I made it out relatively unscathed. I’ll have scarred arms for the rest of my life but I can live with that,” Lowe said. 

He concluded, “We’re torn up about it. And we miss our dog, as crazy as it sounds.”