The first caller was fairly calm.

“I’d like to report a lion sighting,” he said.

“Say that again?” a dispatcher responded.

And thus began the drama over baby lion sightings in Norfolk on Tuesday.        Police said Wednesday that they actually got three 911 calls about the        “lion.”

The first came at 10:19 a.m.

The animal was running on Granby Street, a male voice said.

Then a woman took the phone. She sounded anxious as she described the        proximity to the zoo.

“There was a lion that ran across the street. A baby lion. It was about        the size of a Labrador retriever.”

It was near Granby and 38th, she said. “It’s roaming loose in the        neighborhood.”

A second call came five minutes later.

“I just saw an animal that looked like a small lion.” It had “the mange        and everything,” a man said. He had seen it on Delaware Avenue near        Llewellyn Avenue.

“I don’t know if it got away from the zoo, or what,” he said.

The dispatcher said they already had received a report. “I’m not sure if        it actually is a lion or not, but I’ll update the information.”