A number of people have been seeing more cats in the southwest bowzone around Calgary (about a 25mile radius) in the last few years. It's a fairly settled area, lots of small subdivisions of places where 1/4 sections have been subdivided,a lot of places you can't hunt on. People have had their dogs and cats taken out of their yards, one guy had both his dogs taken the same week off his porch, he saw it out the front window.
I know two people who have shot cats that were following them while hunting, one with a gun, followed him for over a mile at less than 50yds,he shot it at 15. Had to retrace the route with a fishcop following the cat track. He got to keep it. Another one who was bowhunting , shot one at 20 yds,you have to handle one to appreciate how big and strong they really are. This one jumped about 50-60ft when hit and ran into a swamp to croak. It's still there.
Need to respect them, they definitely can take any of us down if they want to.