I have to laugh when 'big cat experts' say they are staking out a very specific area where a puma has been seen. A puma can travel 12+ miles in a day. You think it is going to wait for you?
A leopard 7-11 miles a day or if disturbed (ie a bunch of people dressed up all in cammo or black combat gear 😕) up to 47 miles is not unknown.
What you need to do is stop pretending you are going into urban combat and concentrate efforts to go foot by foot across the area where the cat was seen and look for pawprints, hair on trees, wire, bushes but if the wire is to keep a herd of cows or sheep in then it is very likely (100% so far) that the hair is probably from them.
Read this for some reference and to build on:
https://exoticanimalsregister.blogspot.com/2019/10/non-native-species-evidence-gathering.html
The thing is if you gather evidence what are you going to do with it? Use it for publicity and all the problems that causes? Certainly DNA, Scat and other evidence since the 1990s has proven formerly non native cats are in the UK so what is your end game?
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