Here's a report from near Kerrville - http://wkcurrent.com/big-cat-snared-on- ... 474-71.htm
It's not exactly next door, but it's probably within 100 miles of where the original poster saw a cat.What’s smaller than a Sasquatch, bigger than a Chupacabra, and actually does live in our Hill Country back pastures? Mountain lions, of course.
Known as pumas, panthers, cougars and catamounts, mountain lions are extremely secretive and practically uncommon until stumbled upon haphazardly.
Such was the case April 12 on the Kramer Ranch near Midway Road. A routine fence-line ride turned up something out-of-the-ordinary as Jim and Sharon Capeheart noticed something snared in their fence. From a distance, the tan creature appeared to be a deer hung up in a coyote snare, but as they got closer, they realized that it was actually a mountain lion (Puma concolor).