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.