text: Beast Buddies on Apple TV
  My Hyena Attacks Everyone But Me S3, E1: You would not want to cross paths with this man's hyena. Animal trainer Luke Cornell has been working with deadly animals in the film industry for over thirty years. His South Africa farm called 'Cornellskop' boasts an animal menagerie that includes lions, cheetahs, ostriches, baboons and many others.
  A big cat enthusiast keeps six tigers and two lions in his back yard with one of his beasts weighing a massive 700lbs. Carl Bovard knows that he is dicing with death every time he wrestles with his huge felines but considers it a risk worth taking to raise awareness. Despite the controversy that comes with keeping and breeding big cats in captivity Carl believes that his organisation is helping.
  A 13ft burmese python slithers over a baby in footage which is the stuff of nightmares for most parents. But for snake handler Jamie Guarino it's simply a show of affection from a beloved family pet. Jamie filmed daughter Alyssa, then 14-months old, with his ten-year-old pet snake Nay-Nay. Jamie wants to educate people about snakes, which he says can be loving pets despite their bad reputation.
  We're Going On A Bear Hike
  Former biologist Joel Rosenthal has achieved a lifelong dream by regularly hiking with his pet bears through the wilderness. At Point of View Farm in West Virginia, 74-year-old Joel lives with five black bears and can go months on end without seeing another human being. Joel has been rescuing wild bears for the past seven years, raising them inside his house and protecting them in hunting season.
  Meet the fearless reptile-loving couple who share their home with hundreds of exotic creatures - including venomous snakes and an aggressive 5ft long Nile Monitor lizard. Herpetologist Siouxsie Gillett and snake obsessed partner Simon Paul Keys keep over 80 slithery creatures in a double locked room - including snakes which have enough venom to kill an elephant.
  The Borges brood have been sharing their home with a pack of seven tigers. Aryas Borges, began his love affair with tigers when he found two of the big cats living in a bad state at a circus - and decided to bring them home. After his success with the rescue tigers, Ary started breeding them, and the tigers still have the run of the house at the Borges family home in Maringa, Brazil.
  You would not want to cross paths with this man's hyena. Animal trainer Luke Cornell has been working with deadly animals in the film industry for over thirty years. His South Africa farm called 'Cornellskop' boasts an animal menagerie that includes lions, cheetahs, ostriches, baboons and many others.
  Meet the daredevil who has been training exotic animals for film and television for over thirty years. Lions, cheetahs, hyenas, monkeys and caracals are only some of the animals that Luke Cornell lives with in South Africa. Luke first started working with animals on set in 1988, and he has never looked back since.
  Meet the self-branded 'Lion Dad' who is the proud father of two lions, two ligers and seven wolves. James Smith, of Stanton Missouri, has been around these big cats and wolves for over thirteen years. He was bottle-feeding them when they were puppies and is still feeding them raw meat today.
  Meet the daring animal lover who spends his days cuddling tigers and playing football with a pride of lions. Armand Gerber, 51, runs the Iron Throne Predator and Wildlife Park in South Africa, with the help of his wife, Beatrice.
  An animal lover sees his two grizzly bears as family members after raising them from cubs. Jeff Watson from Indiana has been a bear handler for more than 29 years. His bears, Bob and Screech were given to him as cubs by a tourist attraction in Georgia that was going out of business. Now seven years old, the bears still live with Jeff at his home.
  A giant wolf dog's striking looks - and resemblance to a Game of Thrones dire wolf have led to him becoming a viral sensation. With a DNA mix of 87.5% Gray Wolf, 8.6% Siberian Husky and 3.9% German Shepherd, Yuki, has caught the attention of social media. Before the 40,000 Instagram followers, Yuki was rescued from a shelter where he was abandoned and left fot dead by his previous owners.
  Some pet owners love their animals more than they love their own families but what about those who are so obsessed with their exotic pets that they risk sanity and safety to live together?