I have not encountered any wild cats. I think I would prefer to keep it that way unless I have my shotgun close to hand.

My closest encounter with a bear was many years ago as I was driving home late one night. My thought process was something like this:

1. What is that strange dark shape?

2. That is one huge dog running about late at night.

3. Why is it running ahead of my car so oddly?

4. Oh. That's a black bear.

And of course there are the usual close encounters of the moose kind. I have had two near-misses while driving, and I was stared down by a mama moose while her calf pawed at grass clippings I had recently piled up. I would prefer they get no closer than that.