Roaring Dorset! Encounters with Big Cats

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Author: Merrily Harpur
Publisher: Roving Press
Price: Paperback £4.99

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If you needed any fresh evidence that the British Isles are simply stuffed with strangeness, the next few books will certainly convince you.

First up, a book devoted to big cat sightings in just one modest-sized English county – and it’s packed with them. Harpur runs the Dorset Big Cats organisation, and has collected hundreds of reports over the past few years. Here they all are, presented in a gazetteer of locations.

Panthers, pumas, lynxes and maybe even lions and tigers have all been glimpsed by credible witnesses in delightful Dorset. The density of accounts is almost overwhelming and begs the question – if Dorset has this many big cats on the loose, how many exist in wilder parts of the UK?

Harpur tackles questions of this sort in a useful end chapter on ‘Current Theories’. An essential purchase for big cat lovers.

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2 Responses to “Roaring Dorset! Encounters with Big Cats”

Sophie Strong Says:
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:45 pm
i have seen a big cat it was at canford heath i was walking my dog sonny with my dad and in the distence there was a black thing walking through the grass.Then it stop me and my dad and sonny where staring at the cat and it was staring back.The big glaring yellow eyes i will never for get.I saw sonny pointing “sonny come on” i said it started walking closer and closer me and my dad started running with sonny by our sides.When i looked back it was sittings on the mound staring i got in the car and drove off.And to this very day i still remember the big yellow eyes.

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craig fuller Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:28 am
i belive you all there are woods near wer i live and i saw a black thing running it jumped a fence and thats when i saw a tail i climbed a tree and heard a growl i rang police they done nothing i was only 10 im now 14 and ever since i go to the woods ive never seen it again and i also no for deffinet it was a big cat it was nearly as big as me