What a Plane Load of Stray Cats and Dogs Tells the World About British Values?

Gaby Hinsliff (Journalist) thinks that news of a chartered plane leaving Afghanistan, with a load of cats and dogs, will confirm to the world the weirdness of 'British values' (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/30/britain-dogs-afghan-people-pen-farthing (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/30/britain-dogs-afghan-people-pen-farthing). The dogs and cats flown out, were former strays from an ex-Marine's Nowzad animal refuge in Kabul. The animals were loaded on to a plane, whilst the refuge's Afghan workers were left behind (along with thousands of other people who wanted to flee). Soldiers had to take time to process the loading of animals, on to a plane paid for by public donations. The plane received a rapturous reception from some people, when it landed in the UK. Presumably, the animals will now all have to go into prolonged quarantine. Hinsliff thinks the episode confirms that sections of the British public hold foreign (human) lives in (relative) contempt. Favouring of animals over people also applies 'at home'. The UK has a Royal Society for the Protection of Animals but only a National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.