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Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

How Much Is That Doggie In The Window? Technology and The Future of Pet Adoption

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9112 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The buzz: “Pet adoptions are way up amid coronavirus crisis, even with shelters closed to public” (USA TODAY). “Like everyone else forced to improvise in the face of an unprecedented crisis, America's animal shelters are coming up with creative ways to stay open, so they can continue pairing people and pets. Americans are rushing, well, not to their local shelters but to their phones and laptops to check out available pets, to donate money and supplies, to share the word on social media about rescuing homeless balls of furry fun. Appointment-only and call-ahead adoptions, drive-up fostering and curbside adoptions, online training and at-home volunteer projects…are some of the solutions…to help care for vulnerable animals during the pandemic.” We’ll ask four pet-loving-and-adopting actors – Lori Hammel, Samantha B. Northart, Neal Mayer and Shirleyann Kaladjian – for their take on Technology and The Future of Pet Adoptions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?

0:16.4

Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.

0:21.6

Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.

0:31.0

Here's your host who will take us into the future of now, Bonnie D. Graham.

0:36.3

Ooh, into the future of now. That's my co-producer, Ryan Treasure. I love that now,

0:41.2

now, now. Welcome. I'm going to try not to sing a little song to open the show today. Those of you who,

0:47.3

I won't say are boomers like me, but I just said it might remember this. How much is that doggy in the window, The one with the waggily tail. How much is that

0:58.3

doggy in the window? I do hope that doggy's for sale. My voice teacher wouldn't be too mad at me for that.

1:05.3

In 1953, reached number one. Patty Page sang it much better than I could. It reached number one on the

1:11.4

billboard and cash box charts. It sold more than two million copies and then a woman named

1:16.7

Leta Rosa sang it in the UK. She got to number one the first woman in Britain to reach a number

1:22.9

one chart-topping song and it was the first song with a question mark in the title to ever reach number one.

1:28.5

That sort of sets us up for the topic today, but now let me get more serious.

1:32.5

I have a quote, a couple of quotes from an article in USA today.

1:36.2

So listen up.

1:37.4

Pet adoptions, so we're not talking about selling, we're talking about adoptions.

1:40.8

Pet adoptions are way up amid the coronavirus crisis, even with shelters closed to the public.

1:48.1

That's the first quote.

1:49.0

Let me read a little more.

1:50.3

Like everyone else forced to improvise in the face of an unprecedented crisis, America's

1:56.4

animal shelters are coming up with creative ways to stay, quote, unquote, open so they can continue

2:02.0

pairing pets and people. Americans are rushing, well, not to their local shelters, but to their

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