A report to Milwaukee police of a lion sighting in the city Monday has sparked questions about whether a cougar could have wandered as far south as Milwaukee. Credit: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 
 
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 Since the first report on Monday afternoon of a large animal, described as a lion, on the north side of Milwaukee, police and state wildlife officials have received a flood of calls on other possible sightings but turned up nothing. Dianne Robinson, a wildlife biologist with the Department of Natural Resources, said on Wednesday that police and her agency were fielding calls.  The hunt is still on for a mountain lion on the loose after multiple reports that one is roaming the streets of Milwaukee. In a statement, Milwaukee police Lt. Mark Stanmeyer said: 
 
 "For the past three days, MPD has received calls from concerned citizens who reportedly have seen a lion. Each time a call is received, officers are sent to investigate and have found nothing. On its Twitter account, the Milwaukee Zoo said all its lions were accounted for. Police could not immediately be reached for comment on the shooting, which followed a telephone call to police on Monday from a woman who reported seeing a lion in her neighborhood. On July 20, cellphone video was taken by a resident in the Brewers Hill neighborhood and appears to show a big, wild cat in a neighbor's backyard. The white pit bull with one blue eye, whose owner has not been found, was shot in the right paw on Tuesday on the city's North Side about two miles away from the reported lion sighting, animal control officials said.
– Milwaukee residents, do not panic. That's an order from officials fielding dozens of calls since Monday, when a woman spotted what she claimed was a "lion" in her backyard on the north side of the city. A cellphone video appears to show a lion-like animal that wildlife experts reportedly said was a cougar, per CBS 58. A specialist found no evidence of a large cat, though dry conditions could make it difficult to find hair or paw prints, reports the Journal Sentinel. That hasn't calmed many. Yesterday, a white pit bull was apparently mistaken for a big cat and shot in the paw, reports Reuters; the dog should make a full recovery. "It's ludicrous. It's not tall and not anywhere near the size of a lion," says an animal control rep. "We are trying to tell people not to panic." While the Milwaukee County Zoo's lions are all in their pens, the Department of Natural Resources notes cougars do roam Wisconsin and were spotted in nearby counties last year. Still, the animals are often confused with house cats, fishers, bobcats, dogs, foxes, coyotes, and wolves. They also don't tend to stray far into cities, especially in the summer. Police say they're taking the issue seriously and investigating each possible sighting, but officers so far "have found nothing. There isn't anything else to share at this point." Meanwhile, the "Milwaukee lion" has popped up on Twitter.