By nature, the big cats are elusive and reclusive, preferring to avoid all contact with humans. Though they will fight to protect themselves and their kits, there have been only 88 confirmed attacks on humans between 1890 and 2004 in the US and Canada, and of those, only twenty were fatal. Though cougars were once found in all forty-eight states, now only fifteen are home to them.

Find this and other cat facts and tips in Cats’s Eyes, a Crazy Cat Lady Mystery, and read a cozy mystery at the same time.