If you are never given the ability to mess up you're never going to figure out first hand what it's like to deal with the mess you made and therefore you won't have gained the confidence that you can make better decisions. They say they (I think you mentioned earlier) are wanting you to spread your wings and I'm not saying your parents have any kind of ulterior motive but I think they are exhibiting the classic difficulty of actually letting their children go.. It's hard. Truth is though either you have to break free and brute force your way through life and possibly taking the beating along the way or you may find it very slow going in learning to spread those wings... the wings you were given will atrophy and as time goes on it will be harder than ever to be independent. ok ok end lecture

But to the point about the dog and any other rules, until you are really independent and on your own, you have to really abide but the rules of the house, unfortunately and in this case it's your parents' rules.

As a solution, I think making a plan for how to show them your independence, responsibility and such would be a good one. Start with telling them (politely) that you can't make your own decisions until they fully let you make a few. You can't prove yourself with their guidance being so overbearing. Ask them to let you do what you feel is right and make yoru mistakes. Idk, use my words if you find any truth and usefulness in them.

Just trying to help and hopefully you find something in this long post that's useful and helpful.