Preposterous Pets

Documentary focusing on people who keep all manner of animals as pets. In the first edition, a so-called 'lion whisperer' in the Czech Republic talks about his big cats. Plus, the story of a Texan cowboy who lets buffalo roam in his house

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.

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.

Examine the latest pet craze to take America by storm, pimped-out poodles; Brazilian family with six tigers; Canadian man with a 300lb Grizzly bear drinking buddy; UK woman with a giant tarantula filled bedroom; domestic giraffes in Kenya.

Capybara goes to the vet for a toothache: man gains fame by changing 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 pet cheetahs.

Oklahoma houses Irwin the red kangaroo; man walks his pet jaguar in 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.