why do people care for pets while children are left in the streets?

children have no love,shelter and food,while pets are being given all the attention.
pets can actually take care of themselves because naturally they are made that way but children are different.

This is almost an apples-and-oranges thing. It also isn’t always an either/or situation for one reason or another.

When children have no love, shelter or food they may be children who are in other countries and are not necessarily available for adoption or else they may be children who are with their own families in our own country, and their families have rights. The person who would like to give to, and care for, children doesn’t always have the opportunity (or even right) to do that beyond donating money to certain organizations

Some people do build their families by adopting one child before having a couple of biological children. (I am one.) I have always believed that by making this one, non-biological, child my own was doing my part within any “grand-scheme” type of thinking.

People do what they can do. Sometimes, though, someone may not be interested in, or able to be, contributing to organizations; but for some reason they want a pet and take good care of it. Its a separate thing much of the time.

There’s some line in a song from The Lion King about “there’s more to be done than can ever be done”. That’s how it is in the world. Sometimes people are just not able to be able to rescue children no matter how much they wish they could. Its a separate thing from animals, but the world is full of animals that need shelter and care as well. I’m not comparing them to children, but they are part, too, of the “more to be done than can ever be done” thing. I think, too, the the song, Bless the Beasts and the Children, and the line, “for in this world they have no voice. They have no choice.” Animals are very often in situations where they are not able to care for themselves for one reason or another. Again, I’m not saying they’re equal to children. Again, two separate issues.

Anyone who has children knows that it is entirely possible to love one’s children beyond belief but also love pets in a different way.

As I write this, I am trying to get over a real grief I’m experiencing because my 15-year-old and very nice little cat died last week. Still, there is nobody on this Earth who loves her own children (adopted or biological) more or who cares more about the world’s children. Again, two separate issues. You do what you can do. It isn’t either/or and is kind of apples-and-oranges.

Final note: Sometimes it is easier to be able to take in and care of one of the “zillions” of animals that need a home than it is to figure out how to do something for a child in an American street (with a mother somewhere) or one in a Romanian orphage or one in an African village. Not everyone has money to donate. Most people donate what they can. It can actually be impossible for the person who has no money to donate to do anything at all for the worlds’ children. Animals are easier and cheaper to help. Its sometimes more a matter of doing what one can rather than doing what one wishes one could do.

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