These questions are always something that one can speculate on but not know the true answer to until it happens. I think it would come down to an instinctual reaction. Without a doubt all of us here care deeply for our pets, but I think it would come down to the basic human 'fight or flight' response depending on the situation. I can see myself running into my burning house to try to save my pets, but I think the instinct of self-preservation would keep me from jumping into the actual flames. I can see myself running out into a street to stop an animal from being hit but not leaping in front of a car that WILL hit me without a doubt. I'm thinking of gut, kneejerk, instinctual responses here in a situation where there is no time at all to think or consider. It's just really hard to know until it actually happens. The body's sense of self-preservation is not something easily controlled. For example, when I first got contact lenses, it took time for me to be able to not blink my eyes when putting them in. It took practice to quell that natural response.

Now on something like going without to make sure my pets are cared for, I have done so and would do so again.

I can say I'd WANT to do anything humanly possible to stop anything bad happening to my pets, and they are my kids to me, but how I would react in the heat of the moment I can't honestly say. Hopefully it'll never happen.