People tried feeding me to one as a kid in the early nineties. Another kid got ate by one in Jefferson City likely late eighties.

They are seen quite regularly at Woodland lakes where I live near Sullivan Missouri

We just took photos of the footprints, bigger than your hand, in Callaway County, last week. Prior to that, many years ago, we saw two walking near highway 70 in Warren County.

A friend in excelsior springs had a neighbor that killed a mountain lion that was attacking their goats a few years back. They took a picture and it was a large male