While it is very easy to laugh at this situation, Alice Burton, chief of animal control in Arlington, tells DCist that reports of this nature happen pretty often.

A Fairfax County Police Department spokesman said animal control officers searched for the animal, but did not find anything. Units are still looking.

Fairfax County Police reported the second instance of an aggressive beaver attacking humans in the span of a week.

Now here’s something you don’t see every day — this morning, a buck got stuck in a fence surrounding a green space in Mount Pleasant.

Another story from NBC 4 worth reprinting, title and all: CAMP SPRINGS, Md. — Prince George’s County Animal Control officers were called to the area of Andrews Air Force Base in Camp Springs Thursday afternoon to search for a large cat. Animal control Chief Rodney Taylor said a woman at the base reported seeing the large cat — possibly the size of a mountain lion or a large dog — run on to the base…