 What kind of trouble could unauthorized neutroids mean for Norris?
If I don't want to follow my aptitudes, the only choice is common labor. Destroying unclaimed units is the smallest part of it. With its population legally fixed at three hundred million, most of the country had become one big suburb, dotted with community centers and lined with narrow belts of industrial development. The felines were emotionally safer than the quasi-human chimp-K series called "neutroids." When a pet neutroid died, a family was broken with grief; but most couples could endure the death of a cat-Q or a dog-F. Class-C couples were allowed two lesser units or one neutroid. Attention All District Inspectors: Subject: Deviant Neutroid. Seize all animals in this category, impound, and run proper sections of normalcy tests. Delmont has confessed to passing only one non-standard unit, but there may be others. This could be a ruse to bring a stop to investigations when one animal is found. If allowed to reach age-set or adulthood, such a deviant could be dangerous to its owner or to others. Its replacement-quota of new neutroids was around three hundred animals a month. He tried to estimate how many of July's influx had been K-99s from Bermuda Factory. And there were only eleven empty neutroid cages in his kennel. He wadded the memo in his pocket, then nosed the truck onto the highway and headed toward Wylo City and the district wholesale offices of Anthropos, Inc. A week's deadline for finding and testing forty neutroids would put him in a tight squeeze.
 Unauthorized neutroids would mean more taking "babies" away from their mothers and more killing.
 Unauthorized neutroid animals could be used as an alternate food source for the skyrocketing population.  Unauthorized neutroids could cause food scarcity.  Unauthorized neutroids would mean more taking "babies" away from their mothers and more killing.  A black market for nuetroids could result in neutroid slavery.