My parents live in the far SE corner of OK, not far from LA. For years, the neighbors wife says she has seen one on more than one occasion while deer hunting. Funny thing is, it wasn't until the state bought several hundred acres bordering my dad's property that we started seeing all sorts of non native animals, from lions, to otters. A nearby resident even caught a bear in a hog trap. Several years ago we were there during hunting season and my son was out in the woods by himself. He came back all scared, saying that he saw a large (long tailed) cat jump out of a tree. Kind of made me afraid to let him go out alone. It seems that the OK dept of wildlife doesn't want to admit that they are there for some reason. Could the word "transplant" have anything to do with it?