Thanks, Rex! Yes. I looked into Dogman when others mentioned it as a possibility. I also looked up the Type III Baoon/Gugwe creature you mentioned. A Gugwe is a possibility other than a bigfoot or an abnormally large hybrid horse but...the eyes the thing had...the spacing between it's eyes and the horizontally pointed pupils...I've never seen anything like that nor have I found anything like it. My hope is that some day I can get some closure from finding a photo or someone giving a suggestion of what it was where I'm able to say "Yep! That's what it was for sure!". I hope that day comes and I hope when it comes what I agree it was was something terrestrial and common, not something little or un-known. I get flashback visuals of it's eyes staring back at me way too frequently both in my day and night dreams.
The thing I keep thinking about when I get the flashbacks or talk about the experience is that it had to be approaching me as I was getting back in my vehicle. One thing I haven't mentioned, and I don't know why I didn't mention it, is that there were 2 other sets of eyes back in the wooded area behind it. Also the same scenario where I knew they were extremely tall, the same species of creature and all I could see was their eyes glowing and because of the huge space between their eyes I couldn't convince myself what they were. The 2 that were off in the distance were a good 80 feet away so I wasn't too concerned about them. The one that was standing 8 to 12 feet from my driver door....
I've been tempted to share pins on Google maps to explain this incident really well with actual maps (satellite) of the area thinking it might give some better insight of how it all happened and the environment type, etc. I haven't done that because making consideration of the privacy of the people that live there and the possibility that sharing info like that might be outside the rules or guidelines of these forums.