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Animal control mistakes stuffed tiger for the real thing

Here's a tiger that you can be sure won't bite. 

Kent County Animal Control got a call on Thursday about a tiger sitting in the driveway of vacant home, according to the Grand Rapids Press.  Supervisor Joe Dainelis showed up to check things out.

"The whole time on my drive, I'm completely cynical," Dainelis told ABC News today. "There's no way; it can't be."

Dainelis approached with caution.

"I stop on the street, I look down the driveway and I see its backside... At that point... I could totally see how someone would call this in."

Dainelis radioed for the police to come out to the house. When another animal control officer arrived, she took a look and realized that the 'ferocious' tiger was nothing more than a stuffed animal.

"'Disregard, PD. It's a stuffed animal,'" he recounted.

No one knows who the tiger belonged to so the officers brought it back to the shelter with them---and will likely be teased for quite awhile.

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