First responders rescued a young mountain lion from a tree after he wandered into the yard of an Orange County home on Monday afternoon

Authorities responding to a call reporting a "cat in a tree" in Tustin got quite the surprise when they encountered a much larger cat than expected. According to police, the family let their dog out and it chased what appeared to be a cat up a tree.

First responders in California helped rescue a cat from a tree — except it “wasn’t just any cat,” police said. Instead, it was a mountain lion. The young male mountain lion wandered into the yard of a family in Tustin, southeast of Los Angeles, on Nov. 18, the Tustin Police Department wrote in a Facebook post.

First responders rescued a young mountain lion from a tree after he wandered into the yard of an Orange County home on Monday afternoon, officials reported. “One Tustin family was in for quite the shock when they let their dog out in the morning and it chased a cat up a tree,

The mountain lion was captured and eventually relocated to a remote forest area after a family noticed their dog had chased a “cat” up a tree.