The former “Bachelor” star Lowe opened about the decision to deliver to the rescue dog of her family, Moose, after two different attacks of the boxer sent him to the emergency room.
In a Monday Instagram video, Lowe said the dog was activated for the first time last week after a smoke alarm shot at home. His wife, Catherine, was with her children when Lowe was in the barbecue with friends at home.
The smoke of the barbecue went to the house, Lowe said, because he left the windows and doors due to the good weather. Moose began to bite Lowe’s hands and feet while Lowe tried to move the alarm smoke away, he said.
Moose became aggressive after Lowe gave him a severe “no”, recalled the star of reality.
“It was correct at that time when I show me my teeth and simply attacks me,” Lowe said. “And I do not mean the bite and flee as many dogs do when they are scared or the defensive. I mean, it attacks me and I feel that it drags it into the flesh of my arm.”
Lowe reported trying to get the pad until his friends came to help and added that his arm was severely bleeding. His arm was sprouting blood to the point that he believed that Moose had tied an artery.
“I go to the emergency room and I know in five or six different places in my arm,” Lowe said. “All the time, I’m still having difficulty reconciling what has just happened to my dog.”
In the video, Lowe raised his arm to show a line of stitches in his wrist where the ulnar artery would probably be located.
Lowe and his wife said on Instagram in January that the family adopted Alces after their three children begged a dog for Christmas. In recent months, Lowe has shared family updates with the 7 -year boxer.
He said that one of the most difficult parts was trying to understand why his dog, whom he loved, would attack him. But the couple determined that it was not safe to keep the dog in a home with children and began to make calls to marry alces.
Lowe’s parents came to pick up their children the day after the attack, and at one time, when the back doors were opened by the wind, Lowe said Moose pounced again.
“This dog is so strong, it is so explosive, but I can fight it to the ground,” Lowe said. “I have a consumption of your necklace, but I know that my arm has ripped off, and I only know, as, I am fighting for my life here … I feel that if this dog gets up, it will kill me.”
He added that everything was needed to put Moose, fearing that if he had been his wife or children, the dog could have killed them.
This time, Lowe’s family called the police, and he required stitches once again in his other arm, he said. He showed his two arms during the video, which seemed to be very cut and bruised.
But Lowe said he doesn’t blame Moose for the situation or rescue where he was adopted.
“It wasn’t Moose,” Lowe said. “He, I think it is clear, experienced a lot of trauma before we got it and had something neurologically bad with him, where only one switch overturned. And it became an absolute murderer, which was very strange.”
Finally, Lowe said, he decided to share the situation with fans because he knew they would have questions about their injuries and where the dog was.
“Hopefully, you are all understanding, and we are torn by that. We are really,” Lowe said. “We miss our dog, as strange as it sounds. It was a very, very good dog. And we miss him.”
