Either humans have to restrain their own extensions of human development, or expect more of this.
Large predators have always had “local areas” much larger than what humans would call a “local area”. They travel and hunt across distances greater than most people travel in a day. As human civilization creeps, in fingers of development, ever so little each time into formally unoccupied areas humans cannot seem to acknowledge those areas have been occupied for ages, by large carnivorous predators.
Then you have another factor as a result of human development - the shrinkage of the food sources of the large predators. From that cause, predators like the mountain lion have had to extend their food-source territory, and again bringing them into contact with humans.
Corner a wild animal - even just corner it territorially - and it will react as any living thing does when it is desperate; taking risks more aggressively.
“Corner a wild animal - even just corner it territorially - and it will react as any living thing does when it is desperate; taking risks more aggressively.”
And cats are indeed VERY territorial , even against each other.