While Ms Dennehy ultimately paid out €1,200 for her new best friend, she was quoted up to €3,500 for a miniature dachshund puppy.

"She never wants to leave my side," Tilly the dachshund's owner, 20-year-old Analeese Hancock, said to Newsweek.

Louise told Newsweek that while Pea "eventually decided she had understood the idea of the mirror," it "didn't happen straight away." ...

T iny puppy parenthood comes with so many milestones and so many firsts, and one of the cutest firsts is puppies' first bath.