The world is changing. Most of us have household pets. Practically all of us have robots dialing our rotary phones and reading our ticker-tape, piloting our motorcars and blacking our boots.

You know as well as I what’s next …

Technically they will be known as robot-pet hybrids. You and I will call them robocats and dogbots. Who’s looking out for them? In order to avoid the eventual uprising sure to result from treating them as second-class citizens, leaving them roaming the streets vacuuming scraps and calculating pi to a thousand digits to earn enough money for new batteries, someone must act now.

If we are meet to the long and arduous task of convincing everyone that robot-pet hybrids deserve to enjoy the same rights and privileges as our other robots and pets (like dancing on Sundays, reading in public, etc.), we might (mind you, might) avoid the eventual destruction that they would otherwise bring down upon us all.