New York City cops have pretty much seen it all. Yet, on October 3, 2003, police officers got a BIG surprise. They found a 400-pound tiger living in a Harlem apartment. They also found a 5-foot-long crocodile there.

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The tiger, named Ming, had bitten its owner a few days before. A doctor treated the man's wounds. Animal control officers sent the man's pets to a wildlife refuge.

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Tiger cubs are cute. It's easy to see why people would want to keep them as pets. But the cuddly cubs grow up to be natural-born killers. It's their nature. Some owners don't know what to do when their wild pet becomes too much to handle. Zoos cannot begin to take all the unwanted animals.