Hearing reports of a "lion-like animal," police closed off streets near a park in north Milwaukee on Saturday night, days after people said they saw a lion prowling city streets, Reuters reported.
Milwaukee police and the Department of Natural Resources responded to the area, at 30th and Fairmont streets, for what a police statement called "a confirmed sighting of a lion-like animal."
The animal was not located, it added. Local residents reported earlier on Saturday they had seen a lion and her cub in a creek in the park.
On Tuesday a white pit bull dog was shot in the paw after apparently having been mistaken for the lion reported to have been prowling city streets. It was expected to fully recover.
