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Perfect! Now that we have a main method in our class, we're ready to start using the Dog class.

To use the Dog class, we must create an instance of the Dog class. An instance of a class is known as an object in Java.

The example below demonstrates how to create a Car object:

class Car {

    int modelYear;

    public Car(int year) {

        modelYear = year;

    }

    public static void main(String[] args){

        Car myFastCar = new Car(2007);

    }
}

In the example above, we create a Car object named myFastCar. When creating myFastCar, we used the class constructor and specified a value for the required int parameter year.

2007 is the model year of myFastCar. Note that we declared the new object inside the main method.