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I hate to say that you might have misidentified what you saw but you may have. I doubt highly that a Jaguarundi would have gone all the way out in the desert to Martinez Lake.
In my experience, Jaguarundis are more forest animals. In 1998, I was participating in a herp study in the Peloncillo Mtns of SE AZ. There was a biologist there all the time checking on the study animals and logging their activity. On Saturday, the principal of the study and my son and I arrived at the campsite but the biologist on site had already gone up the mountain to do his duty, When he came down, he apologized for having forgotten his camera because he had seen a "strange catlike creature." When he described it, I immediately showed him some pictures in my Field Guide and he immediately ID'd it as Jaguarundi. I feel it was a good ID since he was a Brit and had never seen one before.
BTW, the Audubon FG notes that Jaguarundis are occasionally diurnal.Audubon also indicates the range in the US is only in SW TX (Christmas and Chisos Mtns) and SE AZ, not extreme SW AZ.
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