'Looks at us as food'

A DNA sample taken from the snows of Wisconsin might help unravel the mystery of how a rogue big cat shot by Chicago Police wound up in fashionable Roscoe Village this week.

But based on a necropsy performed Tuesday there doesn't seem to be any doubt the cougar was a wild animal, not a kept exotic pet that somehow got loose.

Donna Alexander, the administrator of Cook County animal control, said the animal was missing all the hallmarks of a kept animal -- his incisors, or gripping teeth, were intact, as were his claws. And there was no microchip inserted in the animal or reports from sanctioned sanctuaries of a missing cougar.

One possible lead came from the …