You were optimistic that you could stop paying the costs of domesticating the as-yet-animals, and maintaining the domesticated pets – assuming that they possessed latent agency needing only opportunity and resources for expression of that agency.
The job of domestication never ends because regression to the internal mean, and the red queens of technological invention, economic invention, out-group competition, the vicissitudes of nature, and the progress of time, demand our duty and diligence.
We are the few who must rule.
Source date (UTC): 2018-10-03 14:19:00 UTC