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Say my mum's new puppy is the cutest thing you ever saw in your life, or I will run over your cat!

She's called Molly, after my late grandmother. Had she been named after my other late grandmother, she would have been called Margaret.

So Molly it was.

I've given her the same speech I gave her much-missed predecessor when she was about the same age, explaining how she has a hell of an act to follow, but I'm sure she'll do just fine.

Best birthday present ever, according to mum.