News is just coming in that a helicopter using thermal vision has spotted a potential cougar in the Meacham Grove Forest Preserve (Bloomingdale, DuPage County, Illinois). The original reason for the fly over was a missing person.
Watching the video, it’s hard not to think this actually is a cougar. It sure as hell isn’t a dog, or a person. Nor would it be a raccoon.
My hope is that the potential cougar is never seen again, and disappears to southern Illinois, or northern Wisconsin, both of which have national forest land and small wilderness areas. Illinois has a habit of blowing anything away it doesn’t understand. See the gunning down of a Chicago cougar in 2008.
There are 923,000 people in DuPage County, and now, apparently, one cougar. Let’s hope the gun jockeys can keep it in their pants.
