Legendary Dog-Eating Catfish Dies
   

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.