Update 9/19 5:45 p.m.:

The “mountain lion” turns out to be a pet cat named Cookie, per NBC Washington.

Original: 

Really, you can’t blame Georgetown neighbors too much: at first glance, the creature looks like a large and fearsome predator.

Turns out it’s only fearsome if you’re rodent-sized. A very intimidating-looking feline caught on a security camera whipped Georgetown residents into a frenzy over the weekend as they imagined the large-looking, tan, short-haired cat might be a mountain lion. A resident named Giulia di Marzo reviewed security footage from her yard and saw a giant-looking cat clambering up her fence and leaping into her yard, NBC Washington reports. The cat made its appearance around 4 a.m. on Sunday morning. Here’s the video:

But the frenzy was ultimately misguided.

The Department of Energy and the Environment confirmed to DCist that the creature captured in the video is nothing more than your run-of-the-mill domestic cat.

“Luckily, the mountain lion is not one of the many wildlife species that call the District home,” D.C. Department of Energy and Environment Director Tommy Wells tells DCist via email. “The tail markings visible on the cat that made a cameo in Georgetown on Sunday, are a dead giveaway that we can rule out this feline being of the cougar persuasion.”

There is, apparently, no known mountain lion species with ringed colorations of this type on its tail. The cat’s elongated size is likely due to the fish-eye camera distorting its proportions.

This isn’t the first time that D.C. denizens have been convinced of a mountain lion sighting: in 2013, the Office of Community Engagement tweeted about a large feline sighting, but ultimately, no one could confirm it was a mountain lion, and MPD floated the possibility that it was a deer. Last summer, when residents thought they saw a mountain lion lurking in Prince George’s County, officials decided it was probably a fox or a coyote.