It's deeper than you think... There are layers here, you have to peel the onion. We were the bio-agent, but now a new bio-agent is coming to eliminate the first. The vaccine has been released, and we're the infection!
See, I could do this Coast To Coast thing!
Meh... meet me down at the corner of Main and Elm when you find another race that keeps carnivores as pets.
We're still the meanest, baddest hominids on the planet.
Only thing tougher than us is the roaches, rats, virii and some of the prions.
And we have opposable thumbs. (no claims to great intellegence for the species. I've met my new son-in law)
/johnny