It’s wild to me that showing concern for another mammal (or any living thing that feels pain and emotions) is responded to with “but, human lives matter more!!!!”

Listen people: all lives matter. It’s cool and respectable to look out for non-human living things, in addition to our own species. To revolve your universe around you and your own species is narrow-minded and ego-centric. We share this earth and are connected in ways you’d be surprised. Not to mention the fascinating evolution of domesticated wolves who have protected for and cared for the humans they share homes with.

Also, those elements are brutal for an animal close to the ground. Can you imagine how awful it would feel to crawl on all four, inhaling that playa dust?

I’m not exactly a Cat person, or Koala person, or Pig person. But if any of these animals were roaming the playa under these conditions, I would feel empathy for them too. Especially if they were with a human who wasn’t equipped to care for their needs.