So just before we left in December, Katherine was telling us about the school bus having to stop or get rerouted or something because there was a tiger in someone’s back yard.<\/p>\n
Ha-ha<\/em>, we laughed. At best, it was a mountain lion (interesting enough, to be sure), at worse, a mistold story repeated several times.<\/p>\n And then I looked at the local Centennial paper<\/a> …<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It was the stuff of a zany television sitcom last week when a Centennial man was arrested after neighbors reported suspicions that he had been keeping a Bengal tiger in his suburban home.<\/p>\n Officers from the Colorado Division of Wildlife – with back-up from an Arapahoe County Sheriff’s SWAT team – removed the tiger Dec. 19 after conducting an all-day surveillance operation.<\/p>\n “When they called my office and said there was a report of Bengal tigers in Centennial – well, it’s hard to surprise me, but you can shock me with this,” Sheriff Grayson Robinson said.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The kicker is that it was actually in our Foxridge neighborhood. Yikes!<\/p>\n The Centennial tiger was first spotted last month when a tipster gave wildlife officials photos of someone driving the tiger around Centennial in an SUV. Later, some of Michael’s neighbors reported having seen the animal in the man’s backyard.<\/p>\n “I had noticed that their dogs had been out front a lot lately,” said a neighbor who asked not to be identified. “I’m kind of wondering if that might have had something to do with the tiger being inside.”<\/p>\n Children who live on the block had been over to play with the tiger at Michael’s house, according to neighborhood reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (Other<\/a> coverage<\/a> here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So just before we left in December, Katherine was telling us about the school bus having to stop or get rerouted or something because there was a tiger in someone’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14811,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/17\/you-tiger-now.html","url_meta":{"origin":11902,"position":0},"title":"You tiger now!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 17-May-09 10:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"Katherine at the \"end of Sunday school for summer after-party.\"","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26496,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/18\/tiger-tiger.html","url_meta":{"origin":11902,"position":1},"title":"Tiger, tiger","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 18-Feb-12 12:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"An off-kilter, disturbing, encouraging, tigeriffic tale. #ddtb Embedded Link Eleven tigers in a single photograph is a rare sight, indeed Tigers are exceedingly rare. 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