After a few new threads that turned very heated, I think this reminder is way overdue.
Just be thoughtful, and remember your passion for the dogs does not excuse your LACK of COMpassion for your fellow human beings.
If you cannot change a persons mind, then walk away. That person might think about what you said and change their mind later, but they will never change it if you try to bully them into it.
The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Amen.
--Reinhold Niebuhr
The last line in this prayer is the most important. It is what makes the other two lines work.