Winter campers, Tom and Mellisa Elbert, were sitting in their camp when a tiger ran by chasing a deer. The deer and tiger looped around twice before the tiger brought down the deer and quickly killed it with a fatal bite to the throat.
Next the campers claim they saw a man on a snowmobile approach the kill, set up a flood light, dress the deer and then load it up and speed away with the tiger running happily alongside.
“He was petting the tiger and talking sweetly to it in a baby voice while he was dressing the deer. The tiger was licking him,” Tom Elbert said. “This tiger appeared to be his pet."
Idaho Fish & Game has received several reports of a man using a Siberian tiger to hunt deer in the area but have written them off as practical jokes same as they do bigfoot sightings. Now with the photo evidence, they have started a search and investigation.
“I have to admit this is an ingenious way to hunt,” Idaho Fish & Game officer Jim Knudsen said. “But we can’t have a tiger and a man out killing deer. It’s a major public safety issue. We’ll put a stop to this man and his tiger.”
some people run deer with dogs, but never heard of using tigers!
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