Everyday when I turn on the news, I hear a story about a person dieing. It's in the paper to. Human death is so common, we just stop caring. It doesn't matter if it's murder, arson or anything else unless it's a child or something.
When people hear about animals dieing or being mistreated, we all kind of think of a poor defenseless animal who never did anything wrong. I'm not saying animals are above or better than humans, or that an animals suffering is more important than a humans. I'm just saying that they are important and do deserve attention when it's do.
That's all I'm saying.