Bursting from vessels that mimic 18th-century English ceramics are cats, brought to Australia by the first European settlers alongside a variety of household objects needed to set up a new home. Back in England, cats were very much part of domestic life—lingering in kitchens, hunting mice. It must have felt natural to bring them along. What began as an innocent but ignorant act became an ecological catastrophe. Today, feral cats kill an estimated 5 million native animals across Australia daily.