Brazil’s Tiger Family
MARINGA, BRAZIL – UNDATED: Family during lunch with Tom the tiger L-R: Daniella, 20, Uyara, 23, and her daughter Rayara, 2, Nayara, 20, and Ary 43, in Maringa, Brazil.
A BRAZILIAN family have taken the trend for exotic pets to new extremes. Not content with the standard pooch or moggy, the Borges brood have been sharing their home with a pack of SEVEN tigers. Aryas Borges, began his love affair with tigers when he found two of the big cats living in a bad state at a circus and decided to bring them home. His daughters Nayara, 20, Uyara, 23, and Deusanira, 24, grew up sharing their meals, beds and playtime with the fully-grown predators and walking them on a leash. And Nayara, a real-life female Tarzan, regularly hops into the family swimming pool to take a dip with her furry friends. After his success with the rescue tigers, Ary started breeding them, and the tigers still have the run of the house at the Borges family home in Maringa, near Sao Paulo. The family have forged an incredible bond with the tigers after living under the same roof for so long.
PHOTOGRAPH BY Laurentiu Garofeanu / Barcroft USA / Animal Press
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