A Maryland father was so impressed with his daughter’s behavior analysis that he had no choice but to give in to her request for a puppy.

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Brendan Greeley said he was getting ready for work one morning and when he opened the newspaper to check the headlines, he discovered his 8-year-old daughter wrote in big letters “Can I PLEASE get a puppy!? (A real one).”

“She really did do behavior analysis,” Greeley told TODAY. “She watched my habits on how I would sit down in the morning and read the newspaper….