How can we read literary animals in ways that do not reproduce the anthropocentric paradigm? This chapter attempts to formulate possible answers to this question, and thus to function as an introduction to the practice and theory of reading animals. Firstly, there is a discussion about conceptualizations of the ontology of literature in relation to the non-human world. Then, there is an expansion of the meaning-productive potential inherent in the tension between metaphorical and metonymic understandings of literary animals. Finally, a reading strategy is sketched in which the term “following” is proposed as a point of departure for the production of “more-than-anthropocentric” meaning in literary narratives.