Meet Panjo, the 23st Bengal tiger who raids the fridge, sleeps on the sofa and is fed milk from the bottle

ေပါင္ ၃၀၀ ေက်ာ္ေလးသည္ ့တုိင္ ယခုအထိဆုိဖာ

ေပၚထုိင္အိပ္ကာနုိ္ ့စုိ ့ေနဆဲက်ားေပါက္ႀကီး...

 ခ်ဴိခ်ဴိစို ့မယ္ အေမာင္က်ား...

What's up pussycat? Goosey Fernandes feeds 19-month old Bengal tiger Panjo, who has become part of the family after being adopted at just three weeks 

ဆုိဖာခံုေပၚမွာ ေကြးေကြးေလးေနၿပီး သခင္ၿဖစ္သူရဲ ့လက္ကုိႏွာေခါင္းၿဖင္ ့ေ၀ွ ့လို ့တစ္မ်ဴိးတစ္အိမ္ထဲေနအ
ေပါင္းအသင္း ေခြးေတြကုိစလို ့တစ္ဖုံနဲ ့ပန္ဂ်ဴိ ဟာတစ္ကယ္ ့အိမ္ေမြးေႀကာင္တစ္ေကာင္နဲ ့မၿခားပါပဲ...
ဒါေပမယ့္ သူကေတာ ့အေလးခ်ိန္ ၁၄၆ ကီလို ( ေပါင္ ၃၀၀ ေက်ာ္ ) ရွိတဲ ့ဘဂၤလားက်ားတစ္ေကာင္ၿဖစ္ေန
ပါတယ္...

ဘဂၤလားက်ားေတြဟာ သဘာ၀အတုိင္းေတာထဲမွာဆုိယင္ေတာ ့ဘယ္တိရိစၧာန္ကုိမွ မေႀကာက္တဲ ့သားရုိင္း
ေတာမုဆုိးေတြၿဖစ္ေပမယ္ ့က်ားႀကီးပန္ဂ်ဴိ ကေတာ ့သူ ့ကုိေမြးစားထားတဲ ့သခင္ၿဖစ္သူ ဂူေဆးဖာနန္ဒက္စ္
နဲ ့မိသားစု၀င္ေတြႏွင္ ့အတူ ေတာင္အာဖရိကနုိင္ငံ၊ ပရီတုိးရီးယားၿမဳိ  ့ကေနအိမ္မွာ ကစားေနရတာကုိ ပုိၿပီး
ႏွစ္သက္ေနပါတယ္...
ပန္ဂ်ဴိကုိ ၎အသက္ ၃ပါတ္သားအရြယ္မွာ သူ ့မိခင္က်ားမႀကီးကစြန္ ့ပစ္သြားလို ့ေသလုေၿမာပါးၿဖစ္ေနခ်ိန္
မွာ ေကာက္ယူကာ ၿပဳစုယုယေမြးၿမဴထားခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

ဖာနန္ဒက္စ္ ဟာပိန္ခ်ဴံးခ်ိနဲ ့ေနတဲ ့က်ားကေလးပန္ဂ်ဴိ ကုိခ်က္ခ်င္းပဲ အိမ္ကုိသယ္ေဆာင္လာၿပီး ကုိယ္တုိင္

ပဲၿပဳစုေစာင္ ့ေရွာက္ေကြ်းေမြးခဲ ့လို ့အခု ၁၉ လသားအရြယ္မွာေတာ ့သန္မာထြားက်ဴိင္းလာပါၿပီ...

ပန္ဂ်ဴိကုိအိမ္ထဲမွာလွည္ ့ပါတ္သြားလာေနတာ၊ သူ ့သခင္ေတြနဲ ့တုိးေ၀ွ ့ပြတ္သပ္က်ီစယ္ေနတာ၊ မီးဖုိေခ်ာင္

ခံုတန္းလ်ားေပၚကုိခုန္တက္ၿပီး ဖာနန္ဒက္စ္ရဲ ့ေခြးေတြၿဖစ္တဲ ့ မီလိုနဲ ့စကုိင္း တုိ ့နဲ ့ကစားေနတာကုိ ပံုမွန္

ေတြ ့ၿမင္ရမွာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

လူ၊ က်ား၊ ေခြး သံုးေယာက္တုိ ့ရဲ ့လူႏွင္ ့တိရိစၧာန္ႀကားကခ်စ္ခင္မွဳသံေယာဇဥ္ကေတာ ့အခုိင္ၿမဲဆံုးပါပဲ...

ဆာရင္စား၊ ေမာယင္နား... တုိ ့အတြက္ေတာ ့မင္းဟာ သား...

Right at home: Panjo leaps up onto the kitchen bench as he waits to be fed 

" သူဟာ ေခြးေတြနဲ ့ေဆာ ့ေနတာပါပဲ...ေခြးေတြက သူ ့ရဲ ့အရိုးကုိ ခုိးကာကုိက္ခ်ီယူသြားတယ္...ၿပီးေတာ ့

တစ္ေကာင္နဲ ့တစ္ေကာင္ လိုက္တမ္းေၿပးတမ္းေဆာ ့ေနေတာ ့တာပါပဲ...သူဟာေခြးေတြကုိ ဘယ္ေတာ ့မွ

နာက်င္ေအာင္မလုပ္ပါဘူး...သူတုိ ့ဟာတစ္ကယ္ ့ကုိခင္တဲ ့ကစားေဖာ္သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြၿဖစ္ေနပါၿပီ..." လို ့

ဖာနန္ဒက္စ္ ကေၿပာၿပပါတယ္...

သူဟာ အခုမနည္းကုိအေကာင္းႀကီးလာၿပီမုိ ့စုိးရိမ္စရာၿဖစ္၇ေလာက္ေပမယ္ ့ယခုသူ ့ရဲ ့အရြယ္အစားဟာ

အမွန္ေတာ ့အရြယ္ေရာက္ၿပီးက်ားတစ္ေကာင္ရဲ ့တစ္၀က္မွ်သာပဲရွိေနပါေသးတယ္...

တစ္ေရးတစ္ေမာေတြးေတာ...

ေႀကာင္လားက်ားလားေ၀ခဲြမရၿဖစ္ေနတယ္...

Nap time: He may look like he belongs in the jungle, but Panjo lives the life of a house cat

အခ်စ္ဆုံးသူငယ္ခ်င္း ေမာင္ေခြးတုိ ့နဲ ့အတူ...

ယုယေႏြးေထြးတဲ ့ဘ၀ေလးတစ္ခုတည္ေဆာက္ေနခ်င္ပါတယ္...

Special bond: Panjo cuddles up to one of the Fernandes family's Jack Russell dogs

ၿပီးေတာ ့ပန္ဂ်ဴိဟာ ကေလးစိတ္ ( အေကာင္ေပါက္ေလးရဲ ့စိတ္ ) ပဲရွိေနပါေသးတယ္...အခုထက္ထိ ဖာနန္
ဒက္စ္ ကသူ ့ကုိပုလင္းနဲ ့နုိ ့တုိက္ေနရဆဲပဲၿဖစ္ၿပီး ညဘက္ေတြမွာ သူနုိ ့မေသာက္ရယင္ ေအာ္ဟစ္ေနတတ္
ပါေသးတယ္...
သူတစ္ကယ္ဆာလာၿပီဆုိယင္ေတာ ့ေရခဲေသတၱာကုိ အတင္းအဓမၼ ခုန္အုပ္၊ ကုတ္ၿခစ္ေနတတ္ပါၿပီ...
" သူ ့နဲ ့ကြ်န္ေတာ္အပါအ၀င္ မိသားစုႀကားက သံေယာဇဥ္ကေတာ ့ထူးထူးၿခားၿခားေၿပာစမတ္ပါပဲဗ်ာ...
ညဘက္ေတြဆို သူဟာကေလးတစ္ေယာက္လုိ ပဲငိုၿပီးနုိ ့ေတာင္းတတ္ပါတယ္...သူက အိမ္ေရွ ့ကဆုိဖာခံု
ႀကီးေပၚမွာ လွဲၿပီးနုိ ့ေသာက္ေနတတ္ပါတယ္...တစ္ကယ္ ့ကုိခ်စ္စရာ၊ ႀကည္ႏူးစရာပါပဲ..." လို ့ဖာနန္ဒက္စ္
ကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ပန္ဂ်ဴိရဲ ့မိသားစုအခ်စ္ေတာ္အၿဖစ္ေနရမယ္ ့ရက္ေတြကေတာ  ့ကုန္ဆံုးဖုိ ့တစ္ေၿဖးေၿဖးနီးလာေနပါၿပီ...
တိရိစၧာန္သဘာ၀အရ ရုိင္းစုိင္းႀကမ္းတမ္းတဲ ့သေဘာရွိတဲ ့က်ားတစ္ေကာင္အတြက္ အခုလို ေနရာက်ဥ္း
က်ဥ္းေလးထဲမွာ သူ ့ကိုထားတာဟာ အႏ ၱရာယ္ရွိလာနုိင္လို ့ပါပဲ...
ဖာနန္ဒက္စ္ ကေတာ ့သူနဲ ့မိတ္လိုုက္ၿပီးသားေဖာက္နုိင္ဖုိ ့ က်ားအေဖာ္တစ္ေကာင္ရွာဖုိ ့စီစဥ္ေနပါတယ္...

သံေယာဇဥ္ဆုိတာၿဖစ္တတ္တဲ ့သေဘာရွိပါတယ္...


Curling up on the sofa, nuzzling his owner's hand and teasing the neighbourhood dogs, Panjo acts just like any other family cat - except he is a 23st Bengal tiger.
Bengals may be fearless predators when in their natural environment, but Panjo is more at home playing with Goosey Fernandes and his adopted family at thier home near Pretoria, South Africa.
Panjo was hand-reared from the age of just three weeks when he was left clinging to life after being adandoned by his mother.
Fernandes brought him home and immediately took on the job of nurturing the tiny tiger cub, who is now 19 months old and strong and healthy.
Panjo is regularly seen prowling around the house, cuddling up to its owners, leaping onto the kitchen bench and playing with Fernandes' jack russells Milo and Sky.
In a bizarre animal-kingdom relationship the trio are actually best friends.  

'He plays with them, they steal his bones, they run after each other. He has never hurt one of my dogs, they play all the time, they are good friends,' Fernandes said.
And while he already looks big enough to be more than a little bit wary, he is in fact only half the size he is likely to be when fully grown.


And Panjo is just a baby at heart, still feeding largely off the bottle milk Fernandes gives him and crying at night if he is not fed.
If he is really hungry he has even been known to raid the fridge.
'The bond I have with Panjo myself and the family is something extraordinary,' Fernandes said.
'At night he will cry and want his bottle of milk. He lies on my couch outside the house drinking milk. It's worth every minute.'
Panjo's days as a family pet are numbered because as a naturally wild animal, it might become dangerous to keep him in such a small space.
Fernandes has plans to find a mate for the tiger so he can breed.