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  • Germany's legendary dog-eating catfish found dead

    07/25/2003 10:09:46 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 119 replies · 2,651+ views
    Sydney Morning Herald ^ | July 26 2003 | Reuters
    A giant catfish that ate a dog and terrorised a German lake for years has washed up dead, but the legend of "Kuno the Killer" lives on. A gardener discovered the carcass of a 1.5-metre long catfish weighing 35 kilograms this week, a spokesman for the western city of Moenchengladbach said yesterday. Kuno became a local celebrity in 2001 when he sprang from the waters of the Volksgarten park lake to swallow a Dachshund puppy whole. He evaded repeated attempts to capture him. "He was our Loch Ness monster," said Uwe Heil, member of "Kuno's Friends", a local rock band...