Video of the Sunday night encounter shows the tiger coming face-to-face with an armed off-duty Waller County sheriff's deputy, police said. When officers arrived, the tiger’s owner put the animal in a white Jeep Cherokee and drove off, Houston police Cmdr. Tigers are not allowed within Houston city limits unless the handler, such as a zoo, is licensed to have exotic animals. In 2019, some people who went into an abandoned Houston home to smoke marijuana found a caged tiger. “If that tiger was to get out and start doing some damage yesterday, I’m sure one of these citizens would have shot the tiger.

Source: ABC News May 10, 2021 16:08 UTC