{"id":784084,"date":"2026-09-27T08:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T08:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784084\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T08:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T08:26:09","slug":"how-a-bengal-tiger-became-a-victorian-dover-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784084\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Bengal tiger became a Victorian Dover resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eyden, a volunteer with the <a href=\"https:\/\/doverwesternheights.org\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Western Heights Preservation Society, external<\/a>, said when the tiger first arrived in Dover, it was marched from the docks up to the citadel and about 3,000 people gathered to watch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One woman &#8220;flew into a panic&#8221;, he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/brand\/p0hy6cps\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Kent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She fled home and wrote to the colonel saying &#8216;I can&#8217;t leave home because of this, I&#8217;m too frightened it&#8217;s going to come and attack me&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eyden said seeing a tiger at that time would have been like seeing a &#8220;mythological beast or a dinosaur, something you only read about\u2026 so to her it was like seeing a monster from the abyss&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At one stage, the mayor got involved and asked for the tiger to be removed from Dover because people were shopping in Folkestone, Eyden said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eyden, a volunteer with the Western Heights Preservation Society, external, said when the tiger first arrived in Dover,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-784084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}