Do you care about your pet more than you love other humans?

It is really a catch-22 situation to decide whom to save between your pet and a stranger. There is a popular folk saying that states that whoever doesn't know you does not value you. Here you are seeing the stranger for the first time but you have been a bosom friend to your pet. I have come to appreciate that pets like dogs cannot desert you in your hour of need. They can lay their lives down for you and therefore the same is expected of you. This can only be reasoned from a higher spiritual perspective. When an animal dies, its essence ceases to exist. When a human dies, he continues to exist in a different dimension for worse or for good. I would rate the stranger and grieve later.