Report 25768: Man recalls a possible brief sighting near Buchanan, while looking for dog

My dog had come up missing and I heard him barking far away and kept on calling him.   We lived in a very wooded area, so his barking was hard to hear.   When I found him, he was on a beaver  dam in the middle of a pond.  I never told this to anyone, not even my wife.  It just seemed so unreal.  When I saw my dog, he was looking to his right and that is when I saw a figure some seven to eight feet tall.   it stood there for what seemed minutes, but was most likely only seconds. It was very muscular and I knew what it was and only could be.  A bigfoot?  It couldn't be, but it had to be.  We don't have bears this far south in michigan.   Anyway, it ran off, away, from me and was gone so fast I even doubted if it was even there in the first place.   It was in the dead of winter and I had a very hard time getting my dog, a german shepard to come off the beaver dam.   We walked back to our house and I never told anyone about this. My wife had seen a cougar cross the road in front of her three days before that and I ripped her about seeing things, so there was no way I was going to tell her this.   That is about it.   Really nothing else to tell, thanks for listening.  I am interested in more research or being part of any research.  It has really peaked my interest since this happened to me.   Now I dig up anything I can.