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Flo and her child were here, and the kid immediately took to Fredo.

"Sit, Fredo!" she said, while Fredo stood there and panted. Next to me in the other room, Dex sat down.

"Lie down, Fredo! Shake hands?" Nothing, nothing.

"He's a moron, honey," I said. "If you want to shake hands, try Dex here." Instead, she grabbed a tennis ball and took Fredo outside.

"What's the deal with him?" Flo asked. "Don't they have the same parents?"

God knows that was my thinking when I went back to the same well a second time. Dex is my smartest dog ever; I figured so long as I was getting a second dog, I should dip into the same gene pool. But then again, my sister Nadine and I have the same parents, so in retrospect I'm not sure what my point was.

I looked out the window at the child and Fredo. She was trying to teach him to fetch. She sure was picking up her own throws a lot. And as I worked my way to the door so that I could puncture the kid's fantasy, I saw Fredo learn to fetch. And then he did it again, and again, and again. And I was forced to reconsider my estimations.

Flo's kid is wicked smart.