Sproul, one of these days someone will prove it. They will kill the cougar, take dozens of pictures, with dozens of witnesses, take a DNA sample in the presence of those witnesses, and deliver it to a neutral science lab to be analyzed before the PGC orDCNR gets their grubby hands on the cat and starts the cover up.They had better be able to stage a justified killing with a good story and stick to it. And done properly they willl blow this right out of the water, and then you and I and everyone else will be laughing instead of ridiculed constantly. My brother came closer to accomplishing this feat than you could imagine. His fear of the consequences kept him from pulling the trigger on his 7mm mag at a distance under 100 yards. he still regrets it to this day. Outdoor Life just ran an article on the expanding range of the big cats. Interesting that new england has them, the midwest has them, and the southeast has them...yet NOTHING IN BETWEEN?..... Gimme a break.The reason for the cover up is public alarm,( and possible PGC or DNR involvement in the 1970's)population centers in the northeast would be in A PANIC. (Even though there are so few of them the threat would be terribly low.)