Boy fools parents into adopting a puppy by impersonating his mother

‘Noah’s then immediately gone onto my phone, he uses my phone quite a lot to play games and look at Instagram, and he’s obviously gone on WhatsApp.

‘Noah grabbed it and continued the conversation, Kev really did think it was me.’

It was only two hours later that Janine checked her phone and realised what had happened – and confronted a smirking Noah.

Janine said: ‘I didn’t realise until 1pm that Noah had got hold of my phone and that we were getting a new dog.

‘I said “Noah why have you been texting dad?’ He smirked and then said “I really do want the puppy though Mummy, please can we have her?”.

‘I said to Kev “it was Noah, I’m not ready for this”. He just said “I really did think it was you and I’ve said we’ll have her now”.

‘I couldn’t believe he’d fallen for it because Noah’s done it on my phone before.

‘We went away for a break at my mum’s caravan and I’d arranged for Kev to pick us up at around 12pm.

‘Noah wanted to go home early so he texted “hey hun can you pick us up at 9am?”.

‘Noah was absolutely thrilled he got his own – and his dad’s way.

‘I think Kev had made his mind up anyway that we were going to have her.

‘His friend brought her over on Monday to see how she got on with Jet. She’s not left and now she’s staying.

‘She’s so cute. Our main concern was how our other dog would take to her but he’s been amazing. They’re both absolutely bonkers.

‘Kev’s happy as Larry, he’s really excited, he thinks it’s funny and ‘it’s just Noah’. I reckon he’s plotting more for the future.’

Kevyn said: ‘He had me, I was convinced it was Janine.

‘I was in work and the way he put it I thought ‘it’s her then’, he proper had me.

‘I got the messages and thought nothing more of it even the spelling was ok, apart from one word I noticed when I read back, but when you read it quickly you don’t notice anyway.

‘He had a lot of kisses in his messages, I thought “oh my god she’s being nice to me for a change”.

‘When I finally realised it was Noah, I probably swore. I just thought “he’s had me”. I said to Janine ‘I thought it was you, he’s proper done me there.

‘To make sure I’m definitely talking to Janine in future I’m going to have to ring her first and say “is this you?” or have a code word.’