A kind passing cyclist used a sausage to remove a sharp fishing hook that had pierced through a dog's mouth in Thailand.

Sopon Inphollek noticed the distressed black and white pooch running around the fields when he was riding alongside the river in Khon Kaen province on January 2.

The local realised something was wrong with the stray black-and-white pooch he heard the restless creature whimpering so he went to have a closer look and saw it was injured.

Footage shows Sopon calmly luring the frightened dog over to him with a sausage. While the hungry pooch was eating the skewered meat, Sopon uses a pair of pliers to yank out the enormous hook used for catching carp.

Sopon said: ‘I felt so sorry for the dog. It was running all around and crying. I noticed something dangling from its mouth then realised it was a hook.

'The dog would have been struggling to eat because of the sharp metal stuck in its mouth.'

In the video, the dog can be seen trying to eat the meat but also while avoiding Sopon's hand, making it extra hard to remove the tackle.

After about five minutes, Sopon finally pulled the hook off the creature's mouth.

Relieved Sopon said: ‘I have often fished on this river. This shows why people should take care of their trash so it doesn't happen again.'