I am in Thailand now, and yesterday I went to Nongnooch Garden to see some shows. This tiger was sitting on a platform with her trainer off the beaten path from the show and I spent about 30min petting her! Her trainer told me in broken english that he had raised her from infancy and that she was now four years old. As you can see, she was very friendly and pretty collected and calm until some kids ran by at the end of the video... :-P