You are so right, and people seem to defend their weakness and actions to serve animals. Even going so far as to claim an animal as their son or daughter. However they treat the animal better than anyone ever has treated a real son or daughter.
When the animals which have adopted us, shrunk in size, and given up their places on the food chain for us get taken with us to planets the could never have reached by themselves...
...then and only then, our training will be complete.