I agree with your statement until I read the last sentence. "I love and care for animals but they are not as precious and sacred as a human life". My dogs (poodle and shipoo) are my life. I love them just as I love my kids. Saying that, I would NEVER leave my dogs around a child, just the fact that a dogs instinct is to bite to protect (no matter what breed). I am not saying my dogs would ever do that, I would never know because... I would never give them that opportunity.