Casting in equals method

Question

I have a question about overriding the equals method in Java. In my book, I have the following example:

public class Dog{
     private String na         


        

Answer 1

You are overriding equals method to check equality by value not by reference..

i.e You want two dogs equal if they have same name and age not if they are owned by the same person(i.e not if their references are equal)

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Without cast you can't access dog's name and age members