Ho hum.. can't even pay attention to who is making the sarcastic remarks to you.
What if the person had been kidnapped and left abord the ship? Then they wouldn't be there by choice. Who would you save if you could only save one?
What if the dog was a stow away? If it had run aboard the ship while it was at port and was hiding out onboard?
What say you off all the rats and other small rodents that were probably on that ship as well? Would you also want to go and save all them? Or are they just garbage and you care nothing of them?
Why did the humane society not scour the ship looking for the rodents and rescue them also? There were probably cockroaches aboard as well. Are they any less deserving of life?
Evolution is the way it is because certain animals learned to eat the flesh of others. It's all in the food chain.
If you go by the Bible, then God told Adam to chow down on the animals, just not to do so if they still have blood in them.
Even plants eat other animals. It's just the way it should be.
And $50,000 for one stupid dog? How nice to waste the money when there are hundreds of starving children in war-torn countries that could have been fed a nice meal and maybe given some medical treatment. I guess being humane is only good if you can be seen on the news doing it and making a name for yourself. Why help innocent children when no one will notice?
And the cute fuzzy bunny story... Why were you mad about that? At least those rabbits weren't full of fear when they were killed. Unlike a small wild rabbit that would have probably been caught in a snare, ran in circles panicing and then had a heart attack when the human grabbed it by ears to break its little neck...