This is a show? Seriously?
For those who don’t know, Petfinder.com is a great place to find a pet. You can search an area for keywords (either characteristics or breeds), and limit a search by size, age, and a number of other factors. But the best part is that all of these pets come from shelters. So you’re actually adopting homeless pets (something I feel strongly about). We found both of our cats on PetFinder, and they’re great cats.
Anyway, Janelle and I are watching television right now to kill some time before the big basketball game. (Not that I’ll watch it or really care that it’s on. I’ll be playing Final Fantasy X, thank you very much.) We were actually watching a special on Animal Planet about obese pets when something caught my attention. The next show was actually called PetFinder. Intrigued, I watched on.
Sure enough, the show was actually produced by the same people who made the website. That’s right—there’s actually a reality television show about using a website to find a pet. Well, they don’t really actually use the website—professional pet finders use the website, and then come in and show the family the animals that they find. There’s a short bio on the family looking for a pet, showing their personalities and preferences, just like on those house shows on HGTV. They even have minor emergencies, such as an animal falling into the pool—an animal that can’t swim! Oh my goodness, that dog just sunk like a rock.
So I feel like kind of a loser for watching this show (even if I can justify it by saying that it’s just blogging fodder). And then guess what comes on the television? One of the commercials my company put out, advertising continuing education. This means that someone in our Media department determined that people watching this show are likely to either be unemployed or stuck in a dead-end jobs. It’s kind of ironic that they determined that I was the target audience for getting more education so I can get a better job, but I actually work for them.
Animal Planet also has a show coming up called Creature Comforts, which is basically just a comedy show that talks about things like angry drivers with the catch that the people delivering the jokes are actually claymation animals. Hey, claymation animals—we can put that on Animal Planet. Very clever way to add some variety to your programming, guys.
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