Puma
A large solitary cat of the Americas — wide-ranging, quiet power that does not announce its territory.
A puma in a dream is the dream's image of a wide-ranging, quiet authority that holds its ground without telling anyone. The puma covers enormous territory and is rarely seen; the cat known to ranchers is the cat they have lost calves to, not the cat they have met. The dream brings the puma when something in your life — a competitor, a force in the family, a part of yourself — is exercising real authority across a large area without ever being on display. A puma glimpsed at distance on a ridge is the dream affirming the range of the power. A puma found at close quarters, with the kill already made, is the dream noting that the territory has been worked while you assumed it was empty.