re: So evidently we have a cougar/Florida Panther on our property

Neighbor up the road USED to have a barn full of feral cats. He had a large corn crib and kept those cats to kill the rats and mice that lived in the crib. As a result, the whole community was constantly overrun with feral cats and new kittens. If mountain lions have kittens at the same rate those feral mama cats USED to reproduce, our mountains and your swamps probably have a lot more of these mountain lions than any of us realize.