I have to say I'm with everyone else on this topic. What you're parents did to the birds wasn't fair. However it does make me think, how long will it be till you come home one day and your mom tells you she's decided that you have to get rid of the rats, or that she no longer wants the dogs and she's sent them to live on a "farm" or they've "runaway"?

Just do yourself a favour and don't even think about getting amy pets until you have a place of your own AND you can afford to care for them both financially and emotionally.