I wasn't going to show anyone and I did promise the wife I would shelter the kids from the media spotlight, but ... since I saw those cougar photos I have got to post these:

#1 - shot this photo standing in my creek while I was washing clothes this December. Wrestled my way free and ran to the house.

#2 - Taken in the garage after the wife was screaming her head off about a big worm with a hood. Seems DNR introduced these to control the foreign beaver population currently plaguing Illinois.

#3 - Another DNR f-up to control the poacher population in the Archery only State woods across the road. I kept yelling at this guy that he had to carry in and carry out his stand but he just turned, looked and kept walking. The CO said they can never sem to catch this guy.