Viktor absolutely ended up in this position over a misunderstanding, as is often the case whenever he gets into trouble. During a run of the mill meeting with some of the San Francisco Pride's public relations team, Vik brought up the idea of holding an adoption event at the arena on a non-game day. Pride stars would be present to sign autographs and take pictures, with all proceeds going to animal shelters. Someone on the PR team made the mistake of enthusiastically saying "Let's fill the place to the brim with cats and dogs!", and Viktor took them very seriously. What they'd actually had in mind was a small area on the rink, but Vik decided to show up with thousands upon thousands of critters and let them all loose. So yeah, he kind of felt like he deserved the punishment, and he got to kill two (unnecessary) birds with one stone by cleaning up all the fur, drool, puddles of pee (and so on and so on) with every light bulb he climbed up to switch.