People vs Animals

I love those people who say, incredulously, to animal lovers, well, not just animal lovers, anyone really.

"It sounds like you like animals more than you like people."

I love those types. They ask the question as though it is rhetorical, in the sense that the answer is obviously no, and the question itself is an attempt to shame someone into denying it.

They shake their heads as if it is the most outrageous thing they have ever heard.

And it is to those people that I say, just so there is no misunderstanding, 

"If you and your kid are stuck in a burning house, and my dog just happened to be in that house too," not sure why that would happen, but let's just say it did, "With a clear conscience, I'd save my dog, and if that meant you and your kid burned, so be it." 

You know, just so we are clear.

To those people who say stupid things.

People aren't that great, let's face it. Always fighting. Always hating. Waring. Killing. Letting others starve while they eat themselves to death. Too stupid not to poison the land on which they depend. Jealousy. Meanness. Small Mindedness. Racist. Letting refugees get treated badly by our government without much of a complaint. Allowing our government to fool them with tax cuts which will allow this mean spirited conservative government to cut universal medical, education and pensions by stealth, which affects the poorest of us more greatly than the rest, which allows inequality to flourish, which affects us all in the end. An unfair society is an unhappy society, let's face it.

Of course, that is not everybody, but it is true of too many of us.

So...

Give me my dog any day. They are kind and loyal and warm.