Today real cougars (not the human variety) enter my life with the official announcement that the big cats have been confirmed as having returned to Ontario. I spend a lot of time in the outdoors here, where even a decade back we were confident in the Farley Mowat-inspired notion that large predators such as bears and wolves (and by association, cougars) don't attack humans but events have proved that gentleman wrong. Even the coyotes who moved in in the last 25 years or so have taken a liking to menacing smaller humans, most cases going unreported if no blood was spilled. And now we have cougars... these are still really rare here and seem harder to find than ivory billed woodpeckers, even for the government professionals, but I've read accounts indicating that they are becoming increasingly troublesome to people out west- what might we expect when cougars are fully restored to our eastern habitats? Should I start shopping for a rearview mirror for hiking? A backwards walking dog?