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Convince my mom?
I've always wanted a cat. Unfortunately, my mom has always put her foot down on that, despite the fact that she always had a cat when she was growing up, and I know she loves cats. Still, she has permitted me and my sisters to have small animals, so we've had an array of gerbils, fish, and hamsters. My two gerbils recently died =[ but it's been long enough that it's time to start looking for a new pet. I really want to convince my mom that we should get a cat. I've narrowed it down to the cat that I want, too: a Siamese-I think they are beautiful, and they are short-haired, which I hope will appeal to my neat-freak mother. I have some problems though: she's been saying no to me and my sisters for so long, I'm afraid she won't even listen to me. Also, I'm afraid that even if she does listen to me, she will say no because she will think it's unfair that she said no to my sisters (they are both living away from home now) but she would say yes to me (even though they both have their own homes now, with their own cats). My question is, what are some good points that I can use when I'm trying to win her over? Anything that you can think of that would help a very smart, somewhat neat-freak person be sold on having a kitten, please tell me!! Thank you so much =] and I'm sorry this is so long.
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Dear convince my mom,
I think you need to let you mother no you are responsible enough to care for a kitten. To get on her good side about it dont bring the topic up for a little while and help her around the house like cleaning up and cooking with her, when she feels that you have been doing a wounderful job let her no that you are indeed responsible and you would be able to care for a kitten let her no the facts, tell her you will clean up after it, change its litter, feed it .. and care for it. If that doesnt work you could always try my techniec that i used on my mother when i wanted a kitten and she would always tell me no.. what i did was go out and get the kitten find a little box put food and toys in the box then the kitten.. sit the box in front of your door and she will think someone dropped it off and it has no other place to go and she will feel sorry for it especially if she is cat person and will let you keep it.
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i had the same problem but with dogs. i guess you can ask her what you can do to convince her. you'll need to know WHY she says no. does she not trust you? or does she think you wont be able to handle the responsibility of having a big pet? sounds like thats the reason, and she might just be right. you can always say that you have looked after enough small animals, so you're sure you can look after a cat. otherwise you cant do anything. hope i helped
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Well its real hard to convince your mom to get you a pet! Yeah I've tried! I wanted a cat too but we have dogs so that wouldn't work out but I don't think thats your case. The best you can do is to talk to her calmly about it. Tell her you really wanted a cat and your gerbils died and at least let you have a chance to take care of it for a week or something and see how it goes. Thats basically the best you can do. I hope everything goes well for you!
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