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If you don't have the required UK passport, you might need to get a visa instead, which involves a wee journey down to the US Embassy in London.

But now - for a wee while, at least - he will surely only be spoken of in the highest regard.

"It's my daughter's third birthday today and I was a wee bit gutted I didn't get to spend it with her, but it was all worth it to see her at the end," he said.

So it was for all the animals of Ashton Place: the warblers and nuthatches and the wee mousies in the fields.

But which of them was the cat, and which the wee mousie?