Book Review : Big Cat Attacks : Account of Big Cat Attacks

Title:


Big Cat Attacks : Accounts of Big Cat Attacks








Author:



Carole Baskin






Genre:


Non Fiction





Publisher:


Big Cat Rescue





Release Date:


6.14.15





Format:


Kindle





Pages:


190





Source:


Amazon

What happens when big cats attack? You will be surprised just how many big cat attacks there have been.

The book is a partial listing (741) of incidents in the U.S. involving captive exotic cats since 1990. The U.S. incidents have resulted in the deaths of 23 humans, 16 adults and 5 children, the additional mauling of 252 more adults and children, 266 escapes, the killing of 146 big cats, and 133 confiscations.

There have also been 248 big cat incidents outside the U.S. that have resulted in the deaths of 85 humans and the mauling of 134 humans by captive big cats. These figures only represent the headlines that Big Cat Rescue has been able to track.

Because there is no reporting agency that keeps such records the actual numbers are certainly much higher.

Good afternoon. I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday. I was going to write an article entailing how Valentine’s Day is only as commercial as you allow it to be, but I got wrapped up in the romance that my husband planned that day.

I am waiting for my daughter to return home from school. She is excited for school to end; she had winter break next week. I look forward to having her home, but I’ll look forward to the 27th. That is when I can work more on Naked Desire.

Some sad news. Our orange ginger cat, Loki, has fallen ill with a cold. It is not severe enough to take him to the vet, but it is enough to make him feel down in the dumps. I am writing this on my laptop. He is cuddled up against me.

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Our Loki.

As I am fretting about my little cat, I am reading a book about Big Cats. I am a massive fan of Big Cat Rescue. It is sad that there is a need for wildlife sanctuaries, but at least, when humanity hopefully realizes that wildlife is not for our entertainment, there will be no use for such facilities. Please note that a sanctuary is not a zoo. While Big Cat Rescue gives tours, they are guided tours. Visitors are not allowed to wander the sanctuary’s grounds by themselves; there is always a tour guide with them to move the tour along.

Hopefully, this book will reveal one of the truths to owning a big cat or forcing such an animal to perform. These creatures are wild, and with that, their behavior is unpredictable. It only takes one second for a person to lapse in judgment and their life severely altered or snuffed out.

However, I digress.

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Sept. 21, 2012, Bronx Zoo NY: A 25-year-old man jumped out of the monorail into the tiger exhibit where he was badly mauled by one of the tigers. – Big Cat Attacks: Accounts of Big Cat Attacks. Tiger is not affiliated with Big Cat Rescue

I went into this book knowing full well what this book entails. It is a collection of accounts of big cat–lion, tigers, leopard, etc–attacks. The listing of attacks is only a partial listing, and the figure only represents headlines that the Sanctuary was able to track. Unfortunately, there is no agency to keep records of such attacks. Common sense must lead us to assume that the number is much higher than what is reported in the novel.

It is already the middle of February 2017. There have already been four big cat attacks in January. The frequency of these attacks is alarming to me.

While the subject matter is about animal attacks, there was at least one time that an entry was about a big cat and her kittens were videotaped. There was no attack, and I was a bit confused as for why it would be listed with the others. It was obvious that the cat was treated as a pet. While I understand the reasoning why an escaped exotic cat threatens local wild cats, I feel that this makes Chapter One of the book go off on a tangent. It would be better to place it in Chapter Two.

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Big cats make BAD pets because male or female, neutered or not, they all spray buckets of urine to mark their territory. —Big Cats Attacks: Accounts of Big Cat Attacks. Tiger is not affiliated with Big Cat Rescue

Chapter Two of Big Cat Attacks: Accounts of Big Cats focused on keeping an exotic cat as a pet.

Baskins gives excellent detail as for why these magnificent creatures would be horrible pets. For example, big cats are twelve times stronger than people. If you ever own a domesticated cat, then you know that scratches come with the partnership between your cat and yourself. Now, imagine the carnage that a big cat can inflict even if he or she were playing.

I would recommend this novel to anyone who is curious on how many animal attacks that there are during a particular time frame, as well as animal rights advocates.

If you are against the possession and breeding of big cats, please see the Big Cat Public Safety Act, a federal law that would end the possession of big cats as pets, props, and for their parts.

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