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Published on November 01, 1999
Class Dismissed
Puppy school was an enormous success. Everyone graduated: Killer with her diploma and I with a transferable plan of action and a good deal of confidence. I was so thrilled with my newly acquired strategies that I never expected the negative response that erupted from some of my friends.
"Erin is a child, not a puppy!" one mother informed me as she tried to pull her son from the back of my sofa. "Stevie, get down from there! Did you hear me? I mean it. I really mean it!"
I had to smile. Of course I knew the difference between children and puppies. Erin never cried all night or refused to share one of her squeaky toys. Killer never dirtied the living room rug or bit a guest. Other than that, they are amazingly similar.
Killer and I just went back to doggie school for her master's degree. May Erin and I do as well.
Kerry Arquette is a writer and the mother of two daughters and a son.
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