Lock up the Snausages. A lab in Montana determined that was dog doo, said Marty Johnson, wildlife biologist for the state Department of Natural Resources.

Feline-looking tracks were spotted in April near a home outside Union Grove, not long after a woman reported seeing a cougar in Caledonia. A few more sightings have trickled in, but Johnson said they remain unconfirmed.

All that does is fuel the mystery. Give it five years. Instead of a cougar, it'll be a prehistoric saber-toothed tiger roaming the county.

In Racine, driving north on LaSalle Street, you have to jog left at Goold Street to continue on LaSalle. Why is it out of alignment?

There wasn't quite the same demand for uniformity back when that area was laid out. Different subdivisions had different designs, so their roads didn't always line up, said Tom Johnson, a surveying technician for the city. Some streets had alleys while others didn't, and some lots were turned on end.

In other parts of the city, those little jogs might be more purposeful. Surveyors use something called section lines to divide areas, and they're offset to account for the curvature of the Earth, Johnson said.

Have lower gas prices affected the sale of E-85 fuel?

Local sellers didn't return my calls, but recent news stories across the country agreed that sales of the corny blend tanked when gas prices came back to earth.

Last year the 85 percent ethanol blend was the "it" fuel, sometimes cheaper than unleaded by more than $1 a gallon. From 2007 to 2008, the number of gallons sold in Wisconsin jumped 91 percent, according to the state's Office of Energy Independence.

Figures that specific aren't yet available for this year, but from January through May sales of all kinds of ethanol were up about 16 percent from the same period last year. E-85 producers are confident it'll get more love if sticker shock returns to gas pumps.

Can you tell me where Dandelion Park was in Racine? Some of us were reminiscing, and we think it may have had go-carts.

No, you have officially stumped the city parks department and several local history experts. If someone knows, please fill me in.

If not here, maybe you're thinking of DandiLion Park in Muskego. That amusement park operated in Muskego until the 1970s. I remember being dragged there as a kid, before I realized that out-of-control feeling on roller-coasters was the whole idea.

Mike Moore, who compiles the Glad You Asked column, will be off until Aug. 24. Send questions to (262) 631-1758 or e-mail: ask@journaltimes.com