Dog

It figures that I would find a way to get Neil Gaiman in here a second time. This time because of Good Omens, which he cowrote with Terry Pratchett, which includes the character Dog. He's supposedly the hellhound for the Anti Christ, but nothing goes quite right in those stakes...

"'No, it's going to be the kind of dog you can have fun with,' said his Master's voice. 'Not a big dog - '

- the eye in the nettles vanished abruptly downwards -

' - but one of those dogs that's brilliantly intelligent and can go down rabbit holes and has one funny ear that always looks inside out. And a proper mongrel, too. A pedigree mongrel.'

Unheard by those within, there was a tiny clap of thunder on the lip of the quarry. It might have been caused by the sudden rushing of air into the vacuum caused by a very large dog becoming, for example, a small dog.

The tiny popping noise that followed might have been caused by one ear turning itself inside out."