Legendary Dog-Eating Catfish Dies
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A giant catfish that ate a dog and terrorized 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 five-foot-long catfish
weighing 77 pounds this week, a spokesman for the western city of
Moenchengladbach said on Friday.
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 named after the fish.
Several fishermen identified the carcass as Kuno, but doubts
linger.
"That's not the Kuno we know," said Leon Cornelius, another member
of "Kuno's Friends." He said he had seen several huge catfish in
the lake.
Low water levels and a summer heat wave probably killed the
catfish, among the biggest found in Germany. The northern city of
Bremen plans to stuff it and put in a museum.
