Possible tracks & smell noted by vacationers near Haliburton witnessed in Ontario, Canada

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It was a warm August night and because of the tornadoe that came through the area we were burning lots of brush at the front of our cottage. My friend was up with her two boys and they were in the cottage watching a movie with my two kids. We have a dog and he started to growl and he was facing the road/brush between our cottage and our neighbours cottage. There had been a stench in the air all weekend and we thought it may be a bear. My friend had a cottage years ago on Stoney lake in the Peterborough area and said it could be a bear. Our dog is spineless and kept growling and facing the darkness on the other side of the cottage his hackles were up.I as well as my friend and husband tried to peer into the darkness as we did the dog hid under my husbands chair the Xterra has super bright lights so I shone them at the back of the cottage absolutely nothing was there.We then heard a loud crack I said it's a bear I was getting nervous.I shone the lights out the back a gain and seen nothi...