Is it normal that dog lovers care more for their pet than a child?

I can't agree with you there, whilst there are some shit people who undertake shit actions, such as rape, or murder etc. They would have at least done something more productive than most dogs on the planet in their lifetime, humans are the most productive creatures on this planet, whilst they're also a huge factor to it's destruction all animals contribute to the destruction of the planet, whether it be destroying a shrub, shitting on the lawn or simply by driving cars which give out bad gasses for the ozone layer...

Humans are the most capable of emotion, they can show it, they can understand it and they can describe it, even the worst person on this planet deserves just as much or more than any animal that ever existed. But that's the problem isn't in, most dogs on this planet are loved, and cared for more than most homeless men and women and children on this Earth, an average dog lover would change the channel which is featuring an ad about a child in Nigeria fearing of life and death, for a channel about dogs doing basic tricks as a competition.

Another thing, there is no dog that has ever lived that is smarter than any human, unless that human being referred to is only a baby. Humans and dogs have equal intelligence, they also have as much intelligence as an ant, the true meaning of intelligence is having the capacity to learn something. Dogs will chase a car, get run over, get fixed up, and chase another car, they only understand very few things, but only if they're taught, there is no true story of a dog/canine learning from it's mistake, whereas humans, and apes, and even pigs can learn from mistakes and undertake much more than just basic action. No human can be smarter at another human, because whilst he may be better than her at maths, she is better than him at English, and so on but dogs have no knowledge of anything besides, sleep here, sit there, eat this and little else...humans think for themselves, again proving why humans are more deserving than any other animal, especially dogs who don't come close to the smartest animal.

Well one of the dogs in the story above tried to eat an innocent child's face...... Just because dogs aren't smart enough to commit crimes doesn't mean they are better than humans. People want to insist that animals have feelings and emotions like humans but they don't want to admit that animals all have distinct personalities as well. Some animals are nice and some are jerks, just like people.

You wasted alot of time writing a post that broken down is the equivalent of "people are better than animals". Dogs are just animals, like any other animal, just like we humans are an animal. Animals have been classified by humans based on their food chain utility. Humans are super predators, dogs are considered the same thing. At some point between the history of wolves and pre-historic humans, dogs evolved from domesticated wolves. This is believed to have happened because of common goals, hunting and gathering, etc. Apparently now companionship is also part of the mix.

That is how human anthropologists would describe the homo sapien and canis lupus familiaris relationship and shared evolution.

Your second paragraph indicates your belief that dogs shouldn't be considered at the same emotional effect for a human as that same human should consider starving children in Africa. People use money as they see fit, it is a "liquid" commodity controlled by any given individual.

Your third paragraph is all your opinion. Which you have every right to express. Evolutionary biologists believe dogs will out survive humans on the timeline of this planet.

Also, you're sexy.

I don't get what you mean miss Rose, that's a lovely name by the way.

The point I could have explained this a number of ways, but this was the only 'truthful' one I had based on experience and web searching. I'm not trying to accuse dogs as being bad, or to allow people to think for once that maybe humans are treating dogs with too much love, because no matter what I say, I know it's not going to change anything, people are still going to choose to love animals and dogs as much, or more than they ever have.

I just wish to see what the majority of people who come across this question think, is it normal for people to choose to spend more money on a dog with a small non-fatal cut on it's leg, than they do on a child who had it's face mauled off by a dog and is currently in hospital, in a near-death situation.

These people aren't in particularly paying money towards the perpetrator *the dog that mauled the child's face* it is a completely different dog, however in saying this, all dogs are unpredictable and they live entirely based off instinct, no matter how well a dog is trained by it's owner, it is still capable of mauling a child's face if it feels like it. Even the tiniest of yappy pet dogs can damage humans if it so desires, this is the unpredictable nature of the canine that some of us have come to accept.

I should mention, as apart of the story with the child, the dog that undertook the attack is a bulldog, and it is currently being defended by a group of people saying that the dog was the victim, and that the child was at fault, this information didn't get me anywhere closer to the question I was trying to ask so I didn't bother mentioning it.

To get to the point, I don't understand what you mean by 'comparing apples and oranges' but I'm assuming you're saying that it was a bad comparison...it's not when it comes around to my overall question, it's already true that the majority of people on this world are dog lovers, only about a million dislike dogs, and only a few thousand of that million wish to actually harm them. I'm not apart of that few. But it has now come to my attention that the majority of dog lovers feel that dogs deserve more love, care, money spent and so on than other humans, their own kind. This says a lot of things about the person, that they've got some problems may be one of them, but this statement too, depends.

Either way, I appreciate you commenting.

And then people crowd around the dog, forget about the child and then drive off into the sunset, literally leaving the child behind. Meanwhile, the new family on the block, with the new furkid gets all the attention, eeeeveryone looooves the Fur-Family down the road.
Isn't he so cute how he wears his brand new clothes, how he attempts to sit at the dinner table despite his digi-degraded legs.

It's a fantasy I don't like to think about, but many people actually think their dog, or other pet is closely related to a real human child.
This bedazzles me...