Living in northeast Pennsylvania, we’ve become accustomed to seeing bears on a regular basis. The human-bear relationship has become so buddy-buddy that often you can watch videos of a bear walking right by a family sitting on their patio like they aren’t even there. Just last year I did a story on a bear that turned a Jim Thorpe man’s koi pond into his own personal swimming pool.

But what would you do if that bear in your backyard was someone’s pet tiger? That happened this week in a Houston neighborhood. Residents got an emergency notification on the Nextdoor app Sunday night that a tiger was on the loose.

Like my wife, who jumps for joy every time the neighbors catch a bear on their outdoor camera, would do, two of the residents went on a quest to find the tiger. What they found was an off-duty police officer backing away while pointing his gun at the tiger. I can just picture local police chiefs Joe Schatz or Randy Smith in a scene straight off “The Hangover” movie trying to win a standoff with the big cat.

Onlookers originally thought the tiger was getting ready to attack, but alas he was simply trying to walk back to the house where he resides.

The story gets better.

On Sunday night, the owner fled with the tiger, and although the owner was arrested Monday and charged with evading police, the tiger remains on the loose.

Someone call Carol Baskin. Oh, they did?

“It’s no surprise,” Baskin told a Fox affiliate in Houston. “It just keeps happening. Clearly, this cat was wandering around because they left it unattended. They probably thought the backyard fence was high enough, and didn’t realize the cat could hop it like that.”

The attorney for Victor Hugo Cuevas said the tiger didn’t actually belong to Cuevas, but he stopped short of pinning ownership on Mike Tyson.

The tiger wasn’t the only strange pet in the residence. There were also two monkeys, apparently legal to possess in Houston if they’re under 30 pounds. And those monkeys - also missing.

And before you even ask, yes, the tiger, named India, has a Twitter account. So far, it has tweeted a restaurant named the Rainbow Lounge to find out how rare it can cook a steak, the Houston Zoo to find out when mating season begins and the Houston Astros to see if it can get tickets to their home stand with, you guessed it, the Detroit Tigers.

So be glad that we’re just dealing with bears, for now anyway.