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  • 00:01 Janice: I am their mother as far as they're

  • concerned. I am mummy. They'll rub my face, they'll let me kiss them on the nose.

  • 00:07 COMM: Having pet cats may sound run of the

  • mill, but Janice Haley has taken her love of felines to the extreme, keeping two huge

  • tigers in her back garden.

  • 00:18 COMM: Sabre, a 600lb male white bengal and

  • Janda, a 400lb bengal female, have lived with Janice since they were cubs.

  • 00:28 COMM: Despite tigers having a fearsome reputation,

  • Janice has never been short of people wanting to help out.

  • 00:38 Janice: Pretty much everyone comes here to

  • interact with them. My volunteers are all basically part of my family.

  • 00:43 COMM: Like most young males, Sabre can get

  • a little boisterous, but that's not enough to keep Carrie Ates from helping out.

  • 00:50 Carrie: I don't get scared when the tigers

  • are dragging me around the cage. They're doing it in play and it's a relationship we have,

  • especially Sabre, I've been there with him since he was two weeks old and have gone through

  • all the raising and training with him.

  • 01:08 Carrie: The playtime is good for them and

  • they don't make it scary. He's not aggressive when he's dragging me around, he's doing it

  • out of our relationship and it continues the bond I guess.

  • 01:18 COMM: 57-year-old Janice and her husband David

  • work around the clock to care for 6-year-old Sabre and 12-year-old Janda.

  • 01:26 Janice: Hi, you going to let mummy in?

  • 01:29 COMM: But only happened upon their extraordinary

  • life when she decided to quit her boring day job.

  • 01:34 Janice: This adventure began back in 1995

  • when I was working behind a desk doing tedious work and I really wanted to get back outside

  • and my husband came up with the idea of working with these wild exotic animals.

  • 01:45 COMM: Janice understands people may disagree

  • with her decision to keep the tigers in captivity, but says Sabre and Janda have a good quality

  • of life.

  • 01:55 Janice: People who consider it cruel to keep

  • them in captivity have a point to a point. It is not the idea for a tiger to be, but

  • in this point in the wild there is no hope for them out there anymore.

  • 02:07 Janice: If there aren't some of them still

  • left in cages, there aren't any going to be left at all in a couple of years from now.

  • 02:13 Janice: We hand feed them three times a day

  • every single day and they are provided for and loved here.

  • 02:18 Janice: In my opinion I wouldn't mind being

  • a tiger in my backyard.

  • 02:21 COMM: After spending more than 12 hours caring

  • for Janda and Sabre, Janice can finally try and get some rest for herself before it all

  • starts again tomorrow.

  • 02:32 Janice: Nighty-night guys, see you in the

  • morning. Have a good night, love you.

00:01 Janice: I am their mother as far as they're

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