Not a Cougar

A reported cougar struck by a car and put down by police in Ontario was actually a coyote. (News source.)

A professor who investigates cougar sightings was uncertain how people could confuse a canine with a cougar; but as an article in Cryptozoology years ago pointed out, there is a significant percentage of mistaken identities in cougar reports, including both live and dead dogs mistaken for cougar.