Probably wouldnt bother me as much if they were some multiple franchise company like disney or warner bros., from whom of course you would expect that type of thing, or (more importantly) if they hadn't told the guy who wrote that fan adventure game to not publish it. Them telling him to cease and desist, then allowing the sale of this piece of crap is hypocritcal and is basically spitting on fans of the comic strip.
I mean, seriously, Paws Inc. only deals with basically one license, the Garfield characters (and I guess the U.S. Acres characters as well.) If you've ever played Garfield: Caught in the Act for Sega Genesis / Megadrive, you realize that a lot can be done to make a Garfield game fun. I liked Caught in the Act, but then playing Search for Pooky just made me feel utterly insulted. Smaller companies are more likely to listen to feedback because they depend more on the devotion of the fans.
I guess playing this for an hour or so just built up my pent up rage at some game companies who expect gamers to shell out hard earned money when they don't care about the art form. You can really tell just by playing when the creators of a game actually care about what they were doing, and when they are just racing to meet the deadline to make a buck.
Good companies (like Nintendo for instance,) have checks and balances in place to prevent them from letting a game go off to be published if it is just simply is not fun. I wish more companies would follow their example.