Looking round for my tiger, I found that he had sneaked into a large empty den that stood open at the bottom of the yard.
He probably had views on whether Italy should be in the euro, gay marriage and the endangered Siberian tiger but I doubt it's relevant to keeping Sunderland in the Premiership.
When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids.
By the time I joined up as a Tiger Cub, through when I earned my Eagle Award in 2008, my troop, and the other troops I encountered, were filled with a bunch of grade-A weirdos some of the choicest misfits around.
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Having sifted through everything I have heard about the tiger and his wife, I can tell you that this much is fact: in April of 1941, without declaration or warning, the German bombs started falling over the city and did not stop for three days.
In the case of Tiger Woods, I think he's the greatest golfer of all time.
He will now be a wounded Tiger, and I suspect there will be a backlash.
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Tiger Woods and I had an orgy with two clowns, three trained lions, and the whole trapeze troupe.
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All the studio heads knew me as 'Tiger' I'd sign my notes with a paw print.
Call me crazy, but I think Tiger Woods has a much better chance of bouncing back (some) from his transgressions than Bush does from his.
Well, every time Tiger Woods plays, you have to watch because you're witnessing dominance and you feel as though, well, I've got to be able to tell my children and grandchildren who asked, yes, I saw Tiger Woods.
"Given the circumstances of the past 18 months, working through Tiger's scandal, a new coach and with it a major swing change and Tiger battling through injuries, I am very disappointed to end our very successful partnership at this time, " he added.
They were ready for the band's triple encore - Neon Tiger, All These Things That I've Done and When You Were Young.
"I realize now that as hard as I tried to understand Tiger, he tried just as hard not to let me, " he writes.
Tiger parents may not often say "I love you, " but actions speak louder than words.
For the record, I am cheering hard for Tiger to win at Augusta this year.
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If anything, I've found that tiger cubs raised in America have really high emotional intelligence.
But now you finally saw Tiger lashing back a little bit and I kind of liked it.
"I'm with the tiger, " said 60-year-old crockery vendor Mohammed Azem.
The taxi driver was nearly hysterical, convinced I would be eaten by a tiger.
"Tiger is one of the most competitive guys I've ever come across whether it's golf, chess or table-tennis, " added McIlroy.
For example, I never got the connection between Tiger Woods and Buick.
"I believe Kurdistan is like a baby tiger, " said Zedbagi, sipping a latte in a Western-style espresso bar in the Family Mall, Irbil's largest shopping center.
As for me, the anxiety and loneliness of childhood that I describe in my book, "Tiger Babies Strike Back, " has caused an uproar in my family.
The world sees stereotypes of waitress or Tiger Mom, but even within my own ethnicity, I am also supposed to fit into a box -- that of obedient child.
And I think it's because the other players know Tiger Woods at his best is better than everybody else.
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