Teaching people how to play with little tigers is part of my job. Unfortunately, this particular tiger weighed about 1,300 pounds. That is six times as much as I weigh. Pound for pound, tigers are twenty times as strong as a man. You put those figures to the calculator and you'll understand why I felt slightly disadvantaged even though my brain was allegedly bigger than hers.
Tigers can bring down a water buffalo in the wild.
India has recorded cases where tigers attacked elephants, and enjoyed Elasteaks. With several other urgent excuses for my inhospitable behavior also coming to mind, I leaped for the door, caught the knob and slowly squeezed it shut as the puzzled tiger withdrew. I woke up then, shivering with fear and dread, and oozing gratitude all at the same time. I checked the door, thinking I had left it open and that the reason for the dream. It was locked.