Sean Lowe is embracing his scars.
One month after the Bachelor alum’s dog Moose—a Boxer he had adopted only three months prior—violently attacked him, landing him in the hospital twice over the course of 12 hours, the 41-year-old shared an update on his recovery.
“I’m doing great,” Sean—who shares kids Samuel, 7, Isaiah, 6, and Mia, 5, with wife Catherine Giudici—said in a video posted to his Instagram Stories April 15. “A lot of you have asked how I’m doing. I’m doing great. I’m healing, my scars aren’t as bad as I thought they would be.”
“Isaiah likes to kiss this one here,” he added, holding up a scar along the inside of his wrist as his 6-year-old cozied up by his side. ”The doctor told me that one is, that’s about as good as it’s gonna get. It’s kinda red, it won’t be red forever, but I’ll have a cool scar there forever.”
The first attack occurred on March 13 while Sean and a few friends were barbecuing in the backyard. Upon hearing that the smoke alarm inside the house started going off, the reality star went to waft the smoke away with a dish rag—and that’s when things took a turn.
“He shows his teeth at me and just attacks me,” Sean recalled in a March 17 Instagram video. “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 just see blood squirting,” he continued. “Thank god that that my friends were there because they were able to rush me to the ER.”
After receiving stitches on “five or six different places” the father of three returned home to arrange for his and Catherine’s kids to stay at his parents’ house as he figured out how to move forward. But before long, the second attack occurred.
“We’re getting the kids in the car, and I see Moose running out the front door,” Sean explained of the incident, adding that the dog “made a beeline right at me, and just lunged and started attacking me again.”
“It took everything I had to control this dog—and I’m 220 pounds,” he noted. “If it were anyone else, he would have killed my children or my wife, but I was able to hold him for 10 minutes until the cops came.”
And since the attacks, Sean shared that he has been working with animal control and a no-kill shelter to figure out the best option for Moose, adding, “I don’t blame Moose a bit.” But nonetheless, the events that transpired were nothing less than traumatic.
“I have scarred arms for the rest of my life, but I can live with that,” Sean said, admitting that Catherine—who he married in 2014 after meeting her on the 17th season of The Bachelor—will sometimes catch him “cringing every once in a while” from trauma. “From a psychological perspective, I think I’ll be OK.”
For more of Sean and his family throughout the years, keep reading.
Boating Bunch
Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici brought the kids Samuel, Isaiah and Mia to the lake for Fourth of July weekend in 2024.
Easter Festivities
The family of five were all dressed up on Easter 2024.
Back to School
Sean saw sons Samuel and Isaiah off to their first day of school in 2023.
At the Lake House
The family spent Independence Day 2023 at their lake house.
Worldly Wonders
“I think it’s important to travel with your kids while they’re young,” Sean wrote on Instagram in 2023, “so they can see what chicken fingers taste like in other countries.”
First Day of School
The Bachelor Nation dad was all smiles as Mia started school in 2022.
Yeehaw!
Sean played “horsey” to his “2 cowboys and a cowgirl” in this adorable 2022 snap.
Red, Blue & Family
Sean and Catherine spent Fourth of July 2022 with their kids.
Pool Party
The Bachelor alum joking captioned this 2022 photo with Catherine and their daughter Mia, “All these years later and I’m still picking up chicks at the pool.”
Fashion Forward Fam
Talk about a perfect match! Catherine and Sean were twinning with their kids in OshKosh B’gosh overalls.
Samuel’s First Selfie
Happy New Year! The trio rang in 2018 in style.
