The tipster told police he had gone to the house to smoke pot and said that, when he first noticed the tiger in a rickety cage in the garage, he thought he was hallucinating, KPRC-TV reported.
The tiger's cage was not locked and the garage was secured with just a screwdriver and a nylon strap, police told KPRC.
Here's the tiger being loaded into a trailer. Officials said it will go to BARC tonight and a permanent home will be found soon. MORE ---> https://t.co/Qm7RW8ScEG #kprc2 #HouNews pic.twitter.com/8dRuiNLTTc
— KPRC 2 Houston (@KPRC2) February 12, 2019
UPDATE: Man smoking pot finds tiger in abandoned house, says he thought he was hallucinating, according to police https://t.co/Qm7RW8ScEG #kprc2 #HouNews #SometimesHeadlinesWriteThemselves pic.twitter.com/0e8fBgM78h
— KPRC 2 Houston (@KPRC2) February 12, 2019
The tiger was tranquilized and removed from the house to a local animal shelter, but will be relocated to a permanent facility.
The Tiger Conservation Campaign says only 3,500 tigers of all subspecies of the big cat remain in the wild.
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