For Just $.10 a Day You're Insane

It's really cold outside and I didn't feel like doing anything, pretty much like everybody who lives in cold climates, or those who live in a climate that gets four extreme seasons, like me, and it's now zero degrees. When I'm laying around the house doing nothing, I tend to watch TV, mindless shows like Pawn Stars, The First 48, Dangerous Grounds, as well as educational ones, like Doomsday Preppers, Ancient Aliens, and any show that takes place in Alaska. Apparently, marketing research has suggested that people who view these programs have big hearts and like to open up their savings to helping out the less fortunate. 
I can feed a third-world child for just $.50 (US) a day. It's a heartbreaking commercial, emaciated kids with large, innocent eyes staring at you, just needing some food and some meds. It also helps that the UNICEF ambassador is Alyssa Milano and I've seen her naked. It's more difficult to turn someone down when you have history like that. Then an hour later, I see another commercial, this one with cats and dogs, cold, shivering, mistreated, yeah, it's horrible, and it costs $.60 (US) a day. This is where I'm confused. I can help a small child, on another continent, for $.10 less than helping animals down the street? Sure, I'm overlooking all the overhead between me donated and the treatment my child/animal gets, but why would I pay more money to help animals instead of little kids of my own species? Now if this was save the wolves, I'm sure I'd take a different stance (I'm half animal myself), but I think anyone who places the lives of another species above those of their own don't really have a good sense of nature and might want to re-evaluate their place in the world. Yes, this is coming from a misanthrope. 

 You paid $.60 a day so this dog could sleep with 

Sara McLachlan, when you could have paid me $.00.