In the Czech Republic, the Lion Whisper's oversized cats are reaching maturity and threatening their owner; Texan cowboy lets Buffalo roam in his own home.

Young woman on America's West Coast has pair of tamandua anteaters; man in England hosts family of falcons; South African home accommodates hippos; Mulan the Bengal tiger in Java; Florida-resident homes Emma the Tiger Shark .

Capybara goes to the vet for a toothache: man gains fame by changing his name to Lizardlover and takes photos of lizards posing as humans; 15-year-old Digit the gorilla, lives with French family; South African woman lives and sleeps with her pet cheetahs.

Examine the latest pet craze to take America by storm, pimped-out poodles as they compete in a creative grooming contest; Brazilian family with half a dozen big tigers; Canadian man with a 300lb Grizzly bear drinking buddy; UK woman conquers her fear of spiders with a giant tarantula filled bedroom; domestic giraffes in Kenya.

In Colorado, alligator-mad father and daughter duo own and wrestle with a few of their 350 ferocious reptiles. Plus meet a family with an obsession for macaque monkeys.

Oklahoma houses Irwin the red kangaroo; man walks his pet jaguar in the parklands of Mexico City; Nottingham fanatic boasts the largest, domestic aquarium in the UK; family of skunks in the US; scorpion lover who lives with over 1,000 of them in Indonesia.