lions and tigers and bears

through email correspondence:
me:
someone told me i look like a tiger yesterday, what do you think? haha.

mom:
If you ask me? I think you look lovely all the time. Maybe the person meant you look like a cat, a big cat is a tiger.

Were you mean to him[her]? In Chinese conversation if a person was labled as a tiger, especially to a woman, it is a insult. It meant the woman is hysterically mean. I hope you are not!!!!