I was walking my dog along the Mississippi River about 15 years ago when a wolf ran away about 20 yards infront of me. Everyone tells me it was a coyote. If it was, it was the biggest coyote I ever saw and I have seen coyotes while walking the dog on the streets of Chicago in my neighborhood at the time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/coyotes-chicago-lincoln-park/
There is an active policy in many Fish & Game or other official departments, to downplay and ignore reports of dangerous, large predators.
In Northern Wisconsin, people who were training dogs, treed a mountain lion. They reported it to the Department of Natural Resouces.
The DNR official said, there aren't any mountain lions in northern Wisconsin.
The dog trainers went out the next day, treed the mountain lion again, and took video of it.
Then the DNR official had to admit there was at least one mountain lion in northern Wisconsin.
Wait until the Wolfen come around. Of course you won’t you won’t know they are around you until they tear out your throat.