Giant Catfish eats Dog!

German anglers have turned out in force to try and catch a giant catfish that has eaten a pet dog.

The five-foot-long catfish has been making waves in the small lake in Gueldendorf near Frankfurt-an-der-Oder on the German / Polish border for several years.

As well as emptying the lake of most of the other fish, it has now added a small dachshund dog to its list.

German TV quoted the dog's owner as saying the dog had been swimming for a stick when it was suddenly pulled under the water and did not resurface.

She believed the dog had been eaten by the catfish.

Lutz Affedlt, head of the Gueldendorfer Fisherman's Club, says the fish was probably planted in the lake by someone.

Several club members say they have had the giant fish on their lines, but that it has always escaped.

Attempts to net the giant catfish, to shoot it and to use electroshocks to stun it have so far also failed.

Translated from a report in a Berlin Kurier from 2002

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