Long and narrow, 2-feet long. Caused by the dogman's haunches hitting the ground as it bends it's high ankles (backwards knee-like joints) and quickly straightens them out to spring forwards, similar to a rabbit but bipedal and giant tracks.
In the cryptid world, there is the dogman. It looks a lot like a werewolf, but it isn't a shapeshifter and it isn't a human being that is turning into the dogman, a dogman always looks like and always is a dogman, and a silver bullet won't affect them any different from any other type of bullet. In Southwest Central Ohio, a region known locally by some as the Jonaldplayn is famous for it's urban legends and cryptids and has it's own local dogman subspecies. The Mennonites, Amish, and city folks call it the Jonaldplayn Dogman. The descendants of early Ohio Free People Of Color call it the Lügãrü or the Weyiwaya. It leaves long and thin tracks in the mud or snow because it has high ankles halfway between it's knees and feet and it bends its lower legs when it runs bipedally so that the back of it's legs from that joint down to the feet as well as the bottom of the feet get pressed into the snow or mud, leaving tracks with the appearance of a long, thin heel often over a foot and a half long proceeded by it's leading paw prints. Because of how far they bend their legs, they have a strange gait when they run. You can recognize it from far away if you ever see one in the distance.
On July 3rd in 2026 I visited the City of London, Ohio to watch fireworks which occured on the night of the 3rd, not the 4th, that way I could fly to West Virginia and see fireworks a second night again in the Allegheny Mountains. I found a hill surrounded by cornfields that was high up near construction off of Keny Boulevard. Being high up and being surrounded by flat, open farmland gave me a good view and I could see fireworks all around me from in London at the nearby high school and in other small towns and villages across the cornfields and tree lines. As the City of London began setting off the first fireworks for their show, a large back mass raced out of a weedy area of tall prairie grasses and wildflowers and large shrubs and small trees that lies between Daines Village Apartments and London High School. It swerved to avoid lawn chairs full of people watching as it approached Keny Boulevard, backlit by the setting sun to the West. The shadow bounded across the street and raced through the fields that would soon be turned into a housing development. Within seconds, it crested the hill I was on. It stopped, looked down at me, shrieked like a demonic pterodactyl, and then took off running like a bat out of hell, down the other side of the hill and across the cornfields towards Fairhaven and the Molly Agricultural Center. When it stopped in that brief second, I saw a 7 foot tall bipedal wolf with long, pointy ears and reflective yellow eyes and jet black fur. It has a triangular head and was very muscular and barrel-chested. I have been hunting the thing down for the last few days with no success, but I know what their tracks look like and intend to get a photo.
Middle of nowhere no houses around caught on camera was not smoke and was not raining. Any ideas