I tend to agree. Most people have a soft spot for puppies, even if they've been desensitized everywhere else. I hope and believe this will open their hearts, minds, and souls about the rest. All living things feel pain.
>moreso than fellow humans
This bothers me too, more than anything, but we have to start somewhere and the facts didn't work. Now we have to appeal to the emotions of pea brains to get the truth out.