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People act irrationally when it comes to their feelings on preserving life. Human or animal.

I think it's pretty lame to say "Well, we shouldn't save one particular being because we're not maximally saving the most beings!".

Accept what we can get, and work with that. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

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It's not clear that many of these efforts are good at all. A classic example is feeding stray cats. That just increases the carrying capacity so you're creating more stray cats and even more will be hungry.

Exterminate cows to prevent cow suffering? Or farm them to maximize their population?

I mean that's fair, but we're talking about airlifting some poor dogs with a cool drone, not exactly a common thing that will lead to long term problems.

Sure. Not saying this case is harmful to animal welfare, but the idea of anything that seems immediately good being actually good, even a little bit, isn't generally true.

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