It would be awesome, and you're free to see it anyway you want, but i don't really think they're really intentionally referencing anything with that scene...
> implying cats would ever sacrifice themselves for anything
> implying cats have a shred of morality off which to base a religion
> implying cats haven't achieved world domination w/o opposable thumbs
> implying cats arent the biggest thing next to porn on the internet
They just stare cuz they dont know why you would ruin perfectly good milk with corn flakes
Cats have morality because they have emotion. Morality is based upon sentiment, as claimed by David Hume. Look it up. It's the only answer I can accept as fully right, but philosophers don't like that answer to morality because it offers no real answers.