Their eyes were lion to them.

A “lion-like creature” that sparked a full police investigation after it was seen wandering through the woods in Ireland turned out to be just a dog with a snazzy new haircut — and an ironic name, cops announced on Tuesday.

Locals in County Clare, located in western Ireland, thought that they were hallucinating when they spotted a shaggy, tan-colored creature with a lush mane and tufted tail padding through a wooded area.

Police launched an investigation into sightings of a “lion-like creature” that wound up being a Newfoundland dog. Ireland’s National Police

For all intents and purposes, the creature looked like a lion from a distance.

Many in the sleepy countryside called in the bizarre sightings to the Gardaí, Ireland’s national police.

The agency

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