Is Your Dog Embarrassing You?

[Phil Lilley]

A fisherman from Croatia is selling his pet dog because it kept catching more fish than him.

Slobodan Paparella from the Adriatic island of Lastovo said he was fed up with being embarrassed in front of his fishing pals.

He said that most days when he went fishing he would catch only the odd fish - but that his Irish setter Lipi would jump into the water and use her jaws to catch dozens of fish.

Paparalla said the last straw was when he tried to reel in a 15lb (about 6,8kg) fish but lost it at the last second - only to see Lipi jump in and catch the fish with one bite and bring it back to shore.

"The other fishermen were all laughing at me. I have no choice but to sell the dog because it keeps humiliating me," he said. - Ananova.com

[Trav]

Very cute.

My ex-brother-in-law has a pond in his back yard where he feeds catfish dogfood. His dog (now deceased) used to jump in to steal the food away from the fish. Was hilarious to see that mutt(some Spud Mckenzie type) get all ticked off at the Cats. Some of them were big enough to eat it but its tyrant saw no size.

It was the dumb dogs hate for "rolling rubber" that finally did him in though.

[skeeter]

Now there's a mix for you. Slobo the Croatian and his Irish Setter.... Cute story and I can see it happening as we've had three " Big Reds " over the years and they are quick and agile. The first guy would retrieve rocks I threw in the clear shallow Ozark streams even though not asked to and would stick his head under water and look around for the rock I threw. It wasn't always the same one but he had good intentions Too bad Slobo couldn't have made a video tape of his "Lipi" actually catching the fish.