A hilarious video has emerged from the United States of two men attempting to remove a tiger from a building in Detroit.

According to local reports, the situation arose when a British photographer booked a two-day photo shoot at Detroit's Packard Plant.

Only problem was, he is reported not to have told anyone at the plant that he was bringing a tiger, two wolves and a bobcat with him.

The animals, trainers and photographers were kicked out about an hour after they arrived but not before the tiger got loose and holed itself up on a fourth-story staircase.

"I got a call from a friend who asked me to help them get this tiger out of a staircase," said Andy Didorosi, 28, of Detroit.

"He asked me if I had a leafblower, and I said I had a weedwhacker, so he told me to bring that. ... I stopped what I was doing, grabbed my tools and hopped in my truck, because, you know, tiger...

"I don't know much about tiger logistics, but we were told to be this huge blue tarp monster with the weedwhacker and try to be scary and make loud noises. That just made him angry. You could say he got tiger rage, so we retreated."