What in the WORLD is wrong with our society?

I was sitting down at dinner, enjoying some home made chilli I made when I got a phone call.

I looked at the caller ID and saw it was a 800 number, of course, a sales call at dinner, so I of course, ignored it.

The message recorder picked up and I heard the most infuriating message I think I have ever heard!

It was a neighborhood alert about someone's missing cat. I have never in my life received a phone call about anything, any animal or any person missing, and the very first one was about a missing cat?

This is the website:

Lost My Kitty - Our Lost Cat Locating Service will Help Find Your Lost Cat, Lost Dog or Missing Pet

I think someone needs to get their priorities straight. While I don't blame the owner of the cat for using this site, I couldn't help thinking that this would be the perfect website concept for missing children. Evidently once the person submits their information to this website, it auto calls every neighbor within a specific area to alert them about their missing cat. And they claim they have an 85% success rate.

Seems like before using this technology to save cats and dogs, it would be used for children, or maybe to notify people a crime has been committed and the local police department is looking for information. But in an upside down world with screwed up priorities, it's our lost pets that benefit from this type of free service before anything more meaningful. Don't get me wrong, I understand that some people see their pets as close to their heart as their children, and I don't want to offend those people, but come on. A human is far more important than a pet.



What has happened to us?

Scott

in theory i great concept but let"s be honest how quickly did you ingor that call

I think it would be a great addition to the current Amber alert system for missing children.

I think after the robocalls of the last election, almost everyone would rather hear about a missing cat! lol.

Honestly, on my list of things that are wrong with the world telemarketers/computer generated phone calls wouldn't even
break the top one thousand.

That is exactly what my problem with the automated call was. We have automated sales calls to sell us stuff we don't want or need. I get an automated call a few times a week about someones child who is playing hooky, and even when I call the school to complain they tell me there is no way of telling exactly who it is, so the calls keep coming. I get the voting calls, the NRA calls, the computer generated calls about polls. But this cat call (no pun intended) was just over the top. Why are we not using this technology or ability to make the world a better place? It's as if the things that matter, don't matter enough to replace the things that really don't matter at all, or at the very least in the case of the cat, matter less.

I don't know what the answer is, all I know is that I am greatly disappointed in how we valuate things of importance as a society.

Scott