wildlife sightings

Yesterday, while gathering pine cones, I saw two whitetail deer. Closer than 100 yards.

One of the neighbors told me she saw a wolf in the neighborhood a few weeks ago. (A wolf was killed by a car in nearby Waukesha in 2003.)

Another neighbor said he saw a cougar in the neighborhood a few weeks ago. These sightings are always dismissed by the DNR. The DNR claims that most cougar sightings are golden retrievers (this assertion is so preposterous that I do not even know where to begin).

Combined with the black bear in Wauwatosa (captured alive by the DNR) and the bigfoot at Holy Hill (reported by a DNR employee), we are getting to be some kind of wildlife preserve around here.