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24-02-2005, 06:57 AM
I tried to find the article I had read in a Dutch newspaper about a lady who had lost her pet poodle to a large catfish while walking it along a cannal just over the border. They subsequently caught that one alive. I couldn't however find that particular article, but if you follow the two stories below the are other examples..... of poddle noodling!!!
Catfish eats pet dog
German anglers have turned out in force to try and catch a giant catfish that has eaten a pet dog. The now almost five-foot-long catfish has been making waves in the small lake in Gueldendorf near Frankfurt-an-der-Oder 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, reports the Berliner Kurier. 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.
The catfish of the German town Moenchengladbach is dead
Monster fish attacked dogs
The catfish had terrorized the German town for years and when a dozen dogs fell victim for the beast, fishermen in the area started a fish hunt for the giant catfish. But it eluded them all. Now the catfish has been found dead and dog owners are happy. German biologists, who for a long time has studied the European catfish, Siluris glanis, reveals that it has more secrets that we ever dreamt of. Among other things it can breath air if there is an extreme drought and even crawl over dry land! After a dozen dogs had vanished and at least one of them, the Dach hound Roff, had been seen swimming in the lake and suddenly drawn down into the depth, the catfish was named "Jaws" by German media (which alluded to Steven Spielbergs breakthrough with a film dealing with a man-eating shark). The only thing that the heartbroken owner found of his Dach hound Roff was tufts of hair and the dogs collar. Fishermen from all over Germany was flocking at the little lake in the park in the hope of catching "Jaws", but the catfish eluded but amateurs and professionals. Now the "monster catfish" has been found dead, washed up on a desolated beach where it was found by the runner Werner Gruber. Gruber has got the authorities permission to stuff the giant catfish and to a local newspaper he commented: "Jaws could have died of lead poisoning because many fishermen lost their tacle in the lake, but it could also have died of old age". The catfish is an extremely large and varied fishs in the order of Siluriformes.......
http://www.bahnhof.se/~wizard/GUSTeng03/artiklar_moenchengladbach.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/25/1059084215575.html
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_id=11159
http://www.underwatertimes.com/stories/top_2004_weird.htm
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Catfish eats pet dog
German anglers have turned out in force to try and catch a giant catfish that has eaten a pet dog. The now almost five-foot-long catfish has been making waves in the small lake in Gueldendorf near Frankfurt-an-der-Oder 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, reports the Berliner Kurier. 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.
The catfish of the German town Moenchengladbach is dead
Monster fish attacked dogs
The catfish had terrorized the German town for years and when a dozen dogs fell victim for the beast, fishermen in the area started a fish hunt for the giant catfish. But it eluded them all. Now the catfish has been found dead and dog owners are happy. German biologists, who for a long time has studied the European catfish, Siluris glanis, reveals that it has more secrets that we ever dreamt of. Among other things it can breath air if there is an extreme drought and even crawl over dry land! After a dozen dogs had vanished and at least one of them, the Dach hound Roff, had been seen swimming in the lake and suddenly drawn down into the depth, the catfish was named "Jaws" by German media (which alluded to Steven Spielbergs breakthrough with a film dealing with a man-eating shark). The only thing that the heartbroken owner found of his Dach hound Roff was tufts of hair and the dogs collar. Fishermen from all over Germany was flocking at the little lake in the park in the hope of catching "Jaws", but the catfish eluded but amateurs and professionals. Now the "monster catfish" has been found dead, washed up on a desolated beach where it was found by the runner Werner Gruber. Gruber has got the authorities permission to stuff the giant catfish and to a local newspaper he commented: "Jaws could have died of lead poisoning because many fishermen lost their tacle in the lake, but it could also have died of old age". The catfish is an extremely large and varied fishs in the order of Siluriformes.......
http://www.bahnhof.se/~wizard/GUSTeng03/artiklar_moenchengladbach.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/25/1059084215575.html
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_id=11159
http://www.underwatertimes.com/stories/top_2004_weird.htm
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