A bicyclist's daylight, partial sighting of a large animal with a rancid smell witnessed in Chemung County, New York

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I was bike riding at roughly 10:30 AM on Saturday, September 30th. While riding on Marsh Road from Route 223 toward Chemung, I suddenly smelt a very rancid, decaying type of smell. I thought what I smelt was a large roadkill, so I scanned the road to the right and left of me looking for a deer carcass or the like. As I turned me head from right to left I caught a glimpse of large patch of what appeared to be brown fur about 15 -20 yards ahead of me and roughly six feet off the ground. The fur seemed to be moving back into the woods as though it was approaching the road and then suddenly decided to reverse direction. Nothing had crossed the road in front of me. I rode past the area where I had seen the fur and looked back into the tree-line for the white tail of a deer or to hear the sound of something moving through the woods. I saw or heard nothing. I then realized whatever I saw was VERY far off the ground, and probably not a deer. It was about this time I also noticed a dog, chained...