Interpretations of George Orwell’s Animal Farm have been almost exclusively focused on anthropocentric allegory in the text and what I call the anthropo-allegorical interpretive frame. Given Animal Farm’s iconic and enduring status in English classrooms, I critically interrogate this process, particularly how it is informed and perpetuated by the persistence of human exceptionalism rooted in the humanist literary tradition and hegemonic approaches to education. I argue for a new, hybridized reading—and teaching—that moves beyond the anthropocentric and towards a more-than-human interpretive and pedagogical orientation that speaks to the oppressions and challenges confronting multiple species, including, but not confined, to our own.