"Got around to" means "did alllllll the other things they thought might find a pet more quickly." There's nothing lackadaisical about it. It's just well down th

"Got around to" means "did alllllll the other things they thought might find a pet more quickly." There's nothing lackadaisical about it. It's just well down the list of things you try immediately after a pet is lost. I have never seen a date on such a poster and it would never have occurred to me to expect one or put one if I lost my own pet. You seem to be the outlier with this expectation.