Amateur video shows what some believe is a lion wandering in Milwaukee.
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Police are investigating reports of a “lion-like cat” that’s been spotted roaming the streets of Milwaukee, Wis. “It’s a big animal back there and it looks like a lion”, Kelly Brooks told WITI-TV.
Bill Nolen and his wife, Annie, who are both residents in Brewers Hill, took a cell phone video of the big cat walking around the neighborhood. “A game warden came out and confirmed it from a video on my daughter’s cellphone”.
Milwaukee police are warning people not to capture the lion themselves and to call 911 first. “I was sitting there and I couldn’t move”. “She said, ‘Get your camera!’ I said, ‘What’s wrong?’ She said, ‘there’s a lion in the next yard!'”.
“I’m freaked out”, said Simone Ribares, who is anxious about her dogs getting loose.
The report of a lion sighting has lit up social media with its own hashtag #mkelion. The “Milwaukee Lion” is on Twitter, and the possible lion in Milwaukee has made national news.
Flynn said people should report sightings to the police, the Journal Sentinel reported.
Both the Milwaukee Zoo and city’s public museum said their live and stuffed cats, respectively, were accounted for.
If this is a mountain lion, also known as a cougar or puma, DNR officials say attacks are very rare.
Robinson inspected an area around the 200 block of E. Garfield Ave. on Tuesday and did not find hair, feces or paw prints that she said would corroborate the presence of a large cat, such as a cougar.
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“We are treating it seriously”. WISN noted that previous mountain lion sightings in the city occurred a couple of years ago.
