PHOTOS: Giant cat with appetite to eat dogs trapped in unique operation in eastern Russia

The hungry feline terrorised a village snatching and eating guard dogs in Aleksey-Nikolskoye, even forcing scared children to miss classes.
The endangered female Amur tigress snatched guard dogs to feed her two cubs.

Her behaviour is new to experts, but is perhaps the result of a rare species in recovery thanks to a crackdown on poaching in the Russian Far East.

Despite this, Siberian - or Amur - tigers are one of the most endangered species on the planet, with only 550 or so animals still surviving in the wild.

This particular cat was regularly stealing dogs from the village of Aleksey-Nikolskoye, some 40 km from Ussuriysk in the Primosrksy region of eastern Russia.

There was a real danger that fearful locals would shoot the rare tigress.

Or that the tigress could attack humans.

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