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After a much-needed video calling Pakistani tourists out for ruining some of the country’s most scenic spots with random piles of litter, TV host Juggun Kazim is back with another important message.

In a reel posted to her Instagram account on Wednesday, Kazim told her followers to take care of animals as the country faces record-breaking temperatures this summer.

In the video, she fawns over her dog Max and tells her son Hassan and a lady holding a container of water that they shouldn’t have taken him out in the heat — Max, for his part, enjoyed getting wiped down by a wet cloth.

“Jokes aside,” the host said looking into the camera, “I had a request for you all”.

She said she would deliver this request softly after receiving some flak for being too harsh with her last one.

“If you want to keep animals, then take care of them like you would yourself,” Kazim said as her son tried his hand at being a dog masseuse in the background.

She asked people to provide their pets and even strays water to drink and shade to sit under. This, she said, was treating them “like you should treat any living being”.

In her caption, she asked readers to consider how hard the intense heat must be for animals “who have no fan, no shade, no way to ask for help”.

“Kindness doesn’t always require grand gestures. Sometimes it is just remembering that we share this world with others too. Please be gentle. Please be mindful,” she wrote.

She’s not wrong; as global temperatures continue to rise, animals are suffering the result of a man-made ecological disaster and giving them a drink and shading them from the raging sun is the least we can do.