The fiercest house cats Pictures The fiercest house cats Ary Borges and family gather at the breakfast table with their tiger, Tom, in Maringa, Brazil, Sept. Nine tigers amble about Borges' humble home in the middle of an industrial neighborhood in southern Brazil, even if experts say the situation is "crazy" and sure to eventually lead to a mauling, though one has yet to occur. Borges also has two lions, a monkey, and a pet Chihuahua named Little inside his makeshift animal sanctuary, where man and beast live together in his spacious red-dirt compound, separated from the outside world by tall metal fences and high wooden walls. Borges is in a legal battle with federal wildlife officials to keep his endangered animals from undergoing vasectomies and being taken away from him. Credit: Renata Brito/AP