After reported sighting, no lion foundA report of a large animal resembling a lion being sighted off Huguenot Road in South Richmond this week has turned up no evidence of lions lurking in that area. Elaine Severson was walking with a friend in a neighborhood west of Stony Point Ston·y Point A village of southeast New York on the Hudson River north of New City. Its blockhouse, captured by British troops in May 1779, was retaken in July by Gen. Anthony Wayne's forces. Population: 11,744. Shopping Center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into about 6 a.m. on Tuesday when she saw a large, tan animal, estimated to weigh 250 pounds, crouching on the street facing them, she said. "I was kind of in disbelief because we've seen a lot of coyotes and bobcats and we see deer almost every day," Severson said. "But when we saw the massive size of the body, we both went into a 'let's get out of here' mode." City spokesman Michael Wallace For individuals known as Mike Wallace, see . Michael Brunson Wallace is an attorney from Jackson, Mississippi. He was a controversial George W. Bush administration nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. said animal-control officers followed up but could not find any such animal. Officials with the state Department of Game and Inland Fisheries said the animal was likely a bobcat bobcat: see lynx. bobcat Bobtailed, long-legged North American cat (Lynx rufus) found in forests and deserts from southern Canada to southern Mexico. It is a close relative of the lynx and caracal. , not a lion. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the department, bobcats are found throughout Virginia, mostly in rugged areas but sometimes in woods near human habitation HABITATION, civil law. It was the right of a person to live in the house of another without prejudice to the property. 2. It differed from a usufruct in this, that the usufructuary might have applied the house to any purpose, as, a store or manufactory; whereas . Bobcats primarily eat small game such as rabbits. The reported sighting was on Channing Circle near the Chesterfield County line. Severson, who has four children, said she still was planning to take them trick-or-treating tonight. "I wouldn't suggest going out later, when there's not a lot of people around," she said. About a mile away, on private property at Bellona Arsenal, there is a congregation of zebras, llamas, camels and monkeys, but no large cats. Co-owner Marianne Fitzhugh said she and her husband had lynxes years ago but no longer. If someone sees a bobcat or other wild animal, they should stay away from it and call animal control, Fitzhugh added. Contact Chris Young at (804) 649-6754 or cyoung@timesdispatch.com. 
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