DATE:  May 5, 2002

TIME:   6:30 A.M.

LOCATION:  Michigan, Gratiot County
 

TERRAIN:  Sanitation ponds
 

OBSERVED:  I was walking my dogs back by the sanitation ponds and I saw someone sitting on the bank of the pond . I started to walk down the the side of tracks when my dogs saw him they went apes (pun intended). They took off after whoever it was in their backyard . When they got through the fence it rose and I quickly ruled out some pot head back there toking up . It was tall, largely built and I could smell it over the stench of the sanitation ponds . My dogs stopped when it rose , and waited for my command . I was scared !!  This thing started walking toward my dogs it hadn't seen me yet but when it headed in my direction,  my dogs approached it and attacked . It let out this cry , it didn't sound frightened or angry, just like it felt pain . I called my dogs off and thats when he saw me and started to run off across the the two tracks through the ponds. The last that I saw  was when it jumped and completely cleared a five foot fence. I think it had been chased by dogs before because if it had ran a few yards either way the dogs could have kept in chase . I know it is male because when my dogs attacked it sprayed urine which got on one of my dogs and it stunk.  It is really musky smelling,  she's sitting next to me right now and she stinks . The strange thing is my Lab didn't attack it like the pit bulls did. He stood back and watched which is really strange because he usually initiates the chase .

At work i realized that I recognized that smell. The Lab runs off in the morning if you don't watch him but when he comes home he regurgitates animal parts and he smells like the thing I saw.  I don't know if it tolerates my dogs presence or if the dog finds his scraps and rolls in his bed but something strange is going on around here.

ACTIVITIES OF WITNESSES:   Walking the dogs.

DESCRIPTION OF CREATURE:  Large build, tall and brownish red fur. No hair in the face and wide-set eyes. Creature smelled really bad.

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