By Adam Lee Potter It could not have been a more perfect engagement gift from a proud groom to his blue-blooded, dog-loving wife-to-be. When writer William Cash presented society milliner Lady Laura Cathcart with an impossibly cute £800 pug, she was just as thrilled  as he knew she would be. That, however, was when things began to go horribly wrong. Lady Laura with pug Thimble, who was bought in a panic as a replacement for a lost pug Cash, a friend of actress Elizabeth Hurley, was left panic-stricken when he lost the pug – a rare 14-week-old bitch called Damson – in a storm a fortnight before the wedding.
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Calamity struck as MP's son lost £800 prize pug
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Risked life and limb in Meet the Parents-style hunt for a replacement
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Eventually tracked down a look alike down and tries to pass it off as original
‘But then I looked up and saw all @placeholder’s family – all those pug-loving faces – and I bottled it.’