The “Incident” happened almost 36 years ago now. To this day we are still not really sure what it was. Some people say aliens, some say magic, and some even think it was the government. Scientists detected a weird energy wave coming towards Earth about 3 months out. The usual things happened: Doomsday cults, people selling all their belongings, and more people finding religion. Then on October 28th at 2:34 AM GMT the wave hit. It was at that moment about 1/32 of the population turned into Pet People. It took about a week before Scientist figured out it was anyone aroused when the wave hit that changed. Since it was “Doomsday” I guess a lot of people wanted to go out with a bang.
At the time the Pets acted like the animals the person most identified with. Loyal people dog like, independent people cat like, followers sheep like, horny people rabbits, you get the picture. Their DNA got mixed up and they are no longer human some sort of subspecies. They still look human but they regressed to somewhere around the intelligence of a smart monkey. Their life span decreased, most don’t live past the age of 40 although they age well most looking the equivalent of mid 20’s into their late 30’s.