Should cat eats be mandatory, period?

Bangbangbang! Chloe ran down the alley as the spotlights searched for her silloutte. "That woman has no cat ears!" Shit. She had to make it to the river stat. Pow! Chloe's brains splattered all over the wall. Another earless rebel liquidated. Captain Longjohns sipped the OJ as he stared into the horizon. "Every day there's more of 'em" Like rats, but earless. His underling Smitty wrinkled his brow. "Sir... it's just, I don't know if what we're doing is right." Captain Longjohns sighed. Another rookie. "Without cleaning up the filfth off the streets societal harmony will collapse. Credit cards will decline. The vending machines won't be refillled. People will stop going to writing residencies." Smitty didn't seem convinced. His eyes were watering and his ears started twitching. They picked the corpse up and deposited in the vast pile of earless bodies. "But... my heart can't take this anymore." "Captain longjohns saw the ears slip. Someday he knew he would be chasing Smitty. Whether he could pull the trigger when the time came was another question...