Okay.
Here's my problem, and if you have advice, ANY at all that you think would help, PLEASE feel free to give it.
My eighteenth birthday is coming up in March, and the one thing that I would like is a pair of rats. When I brought this up to my mother, she turned me down flat, saying that rats were "filthy vermin" and that she would not have them living in her house. So I got upset and then, after a couple of days, began printing out little "pamphlets" of information and placing them in her mailbox (she works at a school) and slipping them into her purse; places where they wouldn't be missed. I've handwritten notes begging her, telling her how much I would take care of them, and that she wouldn't have to do anything, except perhaps pay for vet bills.
I get a $25 monthly deposit to my bank account, and I would use that to pay for food. My grandparents have rabbits, and they always have leftover bedding that they throw out. I can get a cage off eBay (used, so it's cheaper) and my friend has already agreed to donate water bottles and food containers from her guinea pig cages. The only money my mother would need to "donate" towards them would be the vet bills (which would be when we first got them, and then regular checkups...)
I'm always so angry at my mother because of her inability to see that these rats will make me very, very happy... I've tried slipping interesting rat tidbits into everyday conversation, and she either ignores them, or shouts at me.
What should I do?
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