Quote Originally Posted by coco-bean
I couldnt agree more with all that was said.
The only advice i can give other then what was already said is...ask your mom why? find out her reasons and maybe you two can come up with a compromise! best of luck, let us know what happens!!
As I was reading, I also was wondering what the reasoning is. By learning why she has made this decision, it will help you - NOT is finding a work around necessarily, but learning what things she values, and that will help YOU make all sorts of decisions later on.

Meanwhile, please feel free to enjoy OUR pets! And maybe you can volunteer somewhere and walk dogs - at the vet's? So you get some one on one time with dogs. If you are at the vet's, then the dogs are healing and eventually going home. Where as, at a shelter, sometimes it ishard to say good by when they are at the end of their stay.