Florida woman keeps two big cats in her garden and treats them like normal pets
Janice Haley, 57, keeps two pet Bengal tigers, one which weighs over 600 pounds, in the back garden of her home in Orlando, Florida.

Janice Haley, 57, keeps two pet Bengal tigers, Janda and Saber, in the back garden of her home in Orlando, Florida
Janda is a female orange Bengal, weighing 400 pounds, while Saber is a white Bengal male weighing 600 pounds

Each day Mrs Haley hand feeds the tigers their meat and says Saber can’t get off to sleep without suckling her finger

While most people tend to use their garden as a place of relaxation, Janice Haley chooses to use her backyard as a place to keep her two pet tigers.

Saber, a 600 pound male white Bengal tiger and Janda, a 400 pound orange Bengal female live in a cage at the back of Mrs Haley’s unassuming suburban home in Orlando, Florida.

Each day, the 57-year-old hand feeds the tigers as well as stroking and feeding them and says Saber, the younger tiger, can’t get off to sleep without suckling on her finger.

Mrs Haley quit her job as an admin assistant to spend more time working outdoors around 20 years ago and then took a tiger training course, which she spotted in her local newspaper.

Two years later she arrived home with Chuffer the tiger cub and was immediately bitten by the tiger bug.

In 2002 she bought Janda, who is now 12, to live with Chuffer. After Chuffer’s death in 2007 she then introduced Saber, who was only two weeks old at the time.

Janice Haley, pictured lying down with her pet tiger, Janda at her home in Orlando, Florida

Janda the tiger, pictured, is now 12 and went to live with Mrs Haley in 2002. She weighs over 400 pounds

The two tigers are hand fed chunks of meat by their owner Mrs Haley, who cares for them in her back garden

Mrs Haley, keeps two tigers in a cage in her back garden. Here she gives Saber, a white Bengal tiger a kiss

Cara Yeatts leans back and relaxes with Saber in his enclosure at his owner’s home

Mrs Haley treats the two tigers like ordinary pets by stroking and cuddling them

Janda, left, was put out of place when Mrs Haley introduced Saber, right, to the enclosure but they now get on most of the time

The tigers even get on with other pets such as puppy Buddy, who is pictured bonding with Janda

Mrs Haley pictured with her husband David, left, spend all their free time caring for their pets. Right, Mrs Haley, is seen with Saber in 2007 when she first took him in after the death of her other tiger, Chuffer

Mr and Mrs Haley’s unassuming suburban home in Orlando, Florida, where the tigers live

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