In 2003, a man arrived in an emergency room in New York City with a very bad bite.

He told the doctors that he'd been bitten by a pit bull.

The emergency room team had a little private chat and kind of said there's just no way

that this is a dog that bit him.

And so they called the police and the police showed up at the apartment and they realized

they had a much bigger situation on their hands than they had ever anticipated.

What they found in the apartment was most definitely not a pit bull.

It was a tiger.

Its name was Ming and the man had purchased it from an exotic animal breeder as an eight

week old cub.

By the time of the accident, Ming had grown to 425 pounds.

There was a whole team, they were repelling down the side of the apartment with a tranquilizer

gun and that's what they had to do to do Ming.

They put him on a stretcher and got him out of there and fortunately, they placed him

in an animal sanctuary in Ohio where he lived at his life.

Ming died in 2019 and shortly after that, Ed Martin III got involved.

He is the vice president of the Hartstale Pet Cemetery, just north of New York City.

There was the gentleman who's a plot holder here who had followed the whole story and he

just felt that Ming should be brought back to New York which is where he had spent some

of his life.

Ultimately, Ming was pre-nated and his ashes were buried at the cemetery.

They held a small ceremony and that is where Ming rests today.

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