for the same reason you generally don’t get police cats other than the one at metpol HQ who walks in front of all the new dogs as part of the selection process (they must still sit an obey their owners).
Cats have been employed by UK and EU governments in naval service and at the PTT (Post, Telegraph and Telephone) to prevent paperwork and cables being gnawed by mouse-like rodents.
I did meow with one of mine when the other one are house went missing and (a neighbours tomcat bullied him; as I first meowed against the tomcat (having learned how to imitate an Asian wildcat attack call from the net) and drove it away
it took 3 days of this; I had previously asked for advice from an animal protection organisation but they weren’t sure what to do; I then worked at the Enivironment Ministry and discussed it with their boffins as well. they didn’t see any problems with it and some admitted to having done the same these are folk who all have zoology degrees.
He subsequently started to signal to me (just like the passive drugs dogs) whenever he thought there may be a mouse nest (I didn’t realise what he was doing at first; in the meantime the mice all escaped, this wasn’t a problem as they turned out to be yellow necked mice which are rare in the UK).
After that he started the same signaling when my radio scanner activated on Police frequencies; and if the helicopter went overhead he’d sit on the wheeled bin and signal by looking up (this led to the feds thinking I’d trained him to do this; but he just decided to do that on his own terms).
