There are huge snakes that are not native to North America in the Everglades that were pets before they got too big and were released by their owners.
A Eurasian Lynx could have gotten here the same way.
That is what a friend told me, when I showed her the picture. She said it (or one of it’s relatives) could have been smuggled into the country.
Thank you showing me that there is a possibility that there is an animal here that looks like a bobcat, yet is twice as big.