I want to say thanks for your advice...but trust me I have done everything that you guys have suggested.

One time I tried that for a hamster. I doubled my chores, I wrote the promises and resposibilities that I would carry out in order to keep an animal and everything.

You have no idea how much I have done, how many times I have pleaded and so on and yet nothing.

I can honestly say that I am a responsible person who is willing to devote the time and effort for an animal but my parents will still say no.

I know that this may seem wrong but do you think that maybe I should go out and buy a puppy on my own, bring it home and see what happens?

Tell me what you think. Thanks.