While we need to refine our sensitivity to animal suffering, we should not deceive ourselves into thinking that we can simply “understand” animal suffering. This chapter argues that the questions concerning the meaningfulness and meaninglessness of suffering are inevitably human questions. When investigating animal suffering, we can only do so from within our human perspective. Considering whether, and to what extent, the opposition between theodicism and antitheodicism can illuminate the problem of animal suffering will hopefully enable us to deepen our understanding of our relationship to non-human animals and their suffering. This chapter, therefore, examines the challenges of understanding animal suffering from an antitheodicist standpoint criticizing the theodicist project of harmoniously reconciling the reality of suffering with the reality of an omnipotent, omniscient, and absolutely good deity. In the case of human suffering, theodicism fails to appreciate meaninglessness, whereas in the case of animal suffering, it fails to appreciate the unavailability of the scale of meaningfulness and meaninglessness.