Excerpt from The Black-Eyed Puppy I am a little white rough-haired dog with a black spot around one eye and black ears and tail. I am about the size of a terrier or a spaniel but I’m not really either. At one time I thought I might be a poodle but then it turned out I wasn’t. I’m just not any special kind of dog. My mother wasn’t any special kind either. She was a smooth-haired white dog. Fan was the only one of us puppies that looked like mother.