Burglars throw themselves on a mother of four, but then comes German shepherd dog Aika between

Wevelgem Aika, a German shepherd, is the heroine of a family with four young children from Wevelgem. When Elien Decouttere (27) in the night from Friday to Saturday in her home was attacked by two burglars, was Aika pal. Even more: the dog, trained to protect in crisis situations, chased the burglars away and prevented so that Elien is still more blows got.

Elien Decouttere was in the night from Friday to Saturday something for 1 hour on to what water to drink. “I fell down the stairs and went to the kitchen”, the mother of four her story. “Aika, our German shepherd dog at night in a basket in the kitchen sleeping, growled and stood straight. I thought that was strange. When I the light of the hood aanknipte, everything went very quickly. Both from the storage room if the living room were two men on me flown, both unrecognizable by wearing a hat or a hood. The one was lean and perhaps 1,90 m large, the other smaller but much more robust. That last one has me three times, attacked.”

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Elien, who only three months ago her youngest son was given birth to, he blows. “On my right shoulder, but also on my cheek,” she says. “I also love scratches on my right cheek, about to fight, that fortunately, but short lasted. The perpetrators beat the flight because Aika so tekeerging. They went on the attack to protect me. They did not stop, even though she got more than one flight of stairs. They chased the burglars even in the garden and there too she needs at least one offender a lot to tackle, because we found afterwards pieces of jeans in the garden.”

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The burglars could nothing city. “It was them to get our cars to do,” says Elien, who, together with her husband Nicolas Vallaey (34) with its mobile frituur ’t Smulkotje to all kinds of parties and events attracts. “When I was attacked, took, the adrenaline from me. I saw that one of the perpetrators the keys of our mobile deep-fryer in his back pocket had, but I managed to get the rope grab to which the keys hung. Afterwards we found in the garden also back the keys of our Opel Vivaro. Something else have the offenders has not stolen.”