In 1865 and 1866, after a series of outbreaks on the continent, cattle plague returned to England. In contrast to eighteenth-century writers, as Lyon Playfair’s 1866 The Cattle Plague in its Relation to Past Epidemics and to the Present Attack attests, many nineteenth-century physicians and politicians brought to cattle plague knowledge about infection and sanitary practices gained through a century of fighting cholera outbreaks in human populations. Although reprising many of the discourses featured in previous chapters (insects as disease vectors, the bovine elegy, and pastoral politics), this chapter focuses on the constitutive functions of an analogy between cholera and rinderpest. On the one hand, drawing on lessons from cholera, the sanitary movement advocated for better conditions (clean water, mucked stalls, roomier train cars) for cattle raised or transported to market; on the other hand, cattle became more deeply embedded in the imperial logics of import theory and steppe disease—the belief that “foreign” cattle or “alien” husbandry practices, rather than the local cattle market or a divinely-sanctioned meat-based diet, were responsible for epizootics and panzootics. I end this chapter by discussing what is perhaps the only British novel on rinderpest, Sophie Amelia Prosser’s 1872 The Days of the Cattle Plague.