thanks to sillymissy98 who suggested this apparently from an old episode of Emergency! 905-Wild that was in the 1970's
Chapter 51: playing with the tiger
Sam and Spike were totally bored while the blonde man had the day off and decided needed something to do but headed to get some coffee and on the way there a woman shrieked inside a grocery store and they found her backing out. The woman in her late fifties screamed when spotted a large animal inside the store and ran right into them, "Mam, are you alright?" Sam asked.
She pointed inside, "My husband...is hurt."
Spike called it in and both men cautiously headed inside clearing the rooms finding an older man on the ground bleeding but Sam stayed with him. Spike checked out rest of the store until got to the backroom where found a large Bengal Tiger sitting on top of one of the freezers chewing on a piece of meat and they backed away pulling the injured man with them. a tiger really? he thought as back out of the room, "We need to get out of here there's a tiger."
They had called animal control and took them about 15 minutes to get there and when they got there took down what the two men knew and when they went inside spotted the large animal wandering around the store growling at them. Spike rolled his eyes as the two animal control officers backed out, "Okay, need to call someone who actually knows what to do," one said. "Like from the Zoo that's probably where escaped from."
Spike and Sam shared a look, "How about we try."
Sam raised an eyebrow, "Really you want to wrangle a 500lbs Bengal tiger? How you know what to do?"
He grinned evilly, "I worked for a Zoo when in college and picked up a few things."
The two animal control officers and Metro cops looked at him, "Can you even shoot?" the inspector asked. "With your arm like that?"
"Didn't know you were here inspector," Sam said to the man.
"When heard two SRU officers were here thought would look since might have to shoot the animal."
Spike thought a moment and grabbed something, "I can shoot the tiger with tranquilizer and if that don't work can have zoo people come in."
"No way going in there," one officer said.
"And get eaten," another one said. "Hell no."
Sam took the offered shotgun from one, "Come on cat boy."
Spike loaded a 5cc tranquilizer dart into the gun with a few extra incase needed them. Sam led the way inside glancing at his friend who was scanning the room for the large animal and spotted him but the cat moved out of shooting range. Next they moved just in time for the tiger not to pounce on them. The cat turned around to jump onto the counter landed on the floor. Sam pointed to gun at the cat just in time for the animal to pounce on him but was able to shove him off. Spike missed a shot which stuck in the wall. The cat continued to jump from the floor to different counters or move around the different shelves. The cat got to the back room and used the sky light and a stack of boxes to get on the roof. Both men carefully followed him scanning the rooftop just as the cat rounded the corner and Spike took the shot as made the leap over to the next rooftop and the cat landed on its stomach.
They waited until animal control arrived and took the tiger away and the inspector was waiting in front of the store for when they got down and handed Sam a video that was of the whole chase of the tiger and thought would want it, "Here already have one but figured would be best way to remember."
Spike shook his head, "No one would believe us otherwise."
"Animal control was right the tiger somehow escaped from an animal reserve outside of the city."
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That night Spike needed to drop off some papers to Holleran when ran into Jules, "So heard you had an adventure this morning."
Ed and Wordy stopped next to them, "What did you do this time?" Wordy asked.
Sarge walked over with some files, "I heard a report of two SRU officers wrangled a 450 pound tiger."
"You know anything about that?" Ed asked turning to Sam who joined them.
Spike tried and failed to hide his grin, "Ran into one that was wandering around a grocery store."
"Seems that we have a big cat wrangler among us," Sam said. "Well one that can knock a tiger out."
Everyone was laughing, "What worked as a vet tech while in college."
Jules sighed as pat him on the shoulder, "At least you two didn't get eaten."
"She was looking at Sam like was cat food for a moment."
Sam glared at his friend, "No that was you, man."
