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Attention people of Fairfax: be on the look out for a large cat that could potentially be a cougar.

According to the Farifax Police Department, the Fairfax County Animal Control has received two reports of a large cat sighting near Riverside Elementary School (which is located on Old Mount Vernon Road in Alexandria, Va.) this morning. The description of the cat fits that of a cougar, with “sand or orange color and [estimated] to be the size of a large dog with a tail equal to the length of its body.”

Despite two sightings of the cat, Animal Control Officers searched the area and found no evidence that suggests the animal’s presence.

Though cougars are rare for that area, sightings aren’t unheard of. As the Post reports, “in 1998, a Fairfax County wildlife official tracked reports of a cougar for months.” And last fall, a woman in Southeast Washington said she spotted a mountain lion in her backyard, though that sighting was never confirmed and probably wasn’t actually a mountain lion.

Authorities will continue to be on the look out for the large cat and ask if anyone who spots it to not approach it and call police at 703-691-2131.