Koreans aren't the only ones eating dogs

German fishermen spent last weekend hunting for a giant catfish that ate a pensioner's dog.

The mammoth fish, weighing up to 40 kilos, grabbed the dachshund puppy as it played in shallow water in a lake in Moenchengladbach, Germany.

Park keeper Juergen Schmidt said: "It was like that scene in Jaws - all frothing water and just a pathetic yelp from the dog."

Irene Sommer, who was taking her two children for a walk by the lake, said: "I couldn't believe my eyes. I heard the old woman screaming, she kept saying, 'My dog, my dog,' and pointing wildly at the water.

"Then she started to run away with the dog lead still in her hand. She was completely beside herself."

Park gardener Detlef Berschens says nobody really knows how the catfish ended up in the lake, but that it has been there for a long time without causing problems.

The head of a German angling society says he has dozens of volunteers willing to fish round the clock to catch the fish.

A local restaurant owner has offered a reward to anyone who catches the beast