Nova Scotia Cougar Sighting

From the NovaNewsNow site:

"Eastern cougar sightings in the Atlantic Provinces are similar to the ghost stories and legends you hear while sitting around the campfire at night.
"Or so I’m told. I wish I had known the rarity of the species yesterday afternoon while driving home from work.
"As I’m cruising along the highway, towards Sable River, thinking about all the great purchases I had just made at Frenchy’s I saw a flash of movement off to the left.
"I quickly tapped my brakes and slowed to a complete stop, expecting to see a deer dart out onto the road in front of me, but I was wrong.
"My eyes widened and my mouth dropped as a very, very large cat sauntered sleekly about 20 ft in front of my car and across the highway to the other side.
"My brain took a few seconds to register what it was I was actually seeing.
"Flat and square face with short rounded ears, a long, thick body fraught with muscle under a coat that lay flat and bore the single colour of wheat. I eyeballed its height to be level with the hood of my Honda Fit.
"I stared, with a fleeting thought to my camera in the seat beside me, before I could make any move it had reached the other side and was gone from sight. I scurried into action and yanked on my wheel until I was on the gravel shoulder where the animal had disappeared, my eyes darting in every direction seeking a glimpse, a twitch of it’s long tail, anything that would show me where it had gone.
"My eyes found nothing but the long wheat-like grass spread over the ground and retreating into trees." ...
"I didn’t know the name for what I had seen and figured it to be a bobcat until the next day when I described it to my editor.
"He told me it sounded like a cougar but they were only a myth in Nova Scotia, a ghost.
"He then showed me various pictures of large cats and I knew when I saw the pictures of the cougar that it was the animal I had seen."