Mother warns the danger of Akita dogs following brutal attack

A mother of three from Co Louth is warning people to be aware of the danger of Japanese Akita dogs - after she was brutally mauled by one.

Olivia Donnelly from Dundalk was repeatedly attacked by her father's Akita dog, Bran, over a two hour period.

She said the puppies may look like teddy bears - but the reality is very different.

And she said she only managed to escape by playing dead: “And I just crawled myself, kept crawling, any time that I tried to get up he would give me a big bite then, and he would maul me again, so I would try again to play dead.

“I lay on my left arm then quite a lot so when I did eventually drag myself to the back door, the police and all that were there.”