| Sumario: | The article focuses on the complexities and challenges of multispecies justice, examining human-animal relationships through case studies and critical scholarship. It highlights Flavien Ndonko’s pioneering multispecies ethnography on Germans and their dogs, revealing how dogs are humanized within German society, while also addressing racial barriers faced by Ndonko as a Cameroonian researcher. The article contrasts this with the militarized use of protection dogs by Israel Protection K9, linked to the Israel Defense Forces’ canine unit Oketz, illustrating how multispecies relations can perpetuate violence and settler colonialism. It further discusses a collection of essays titled *The Promise of Multispecies Justice*, which critiques assumptions about the liberatory potential of human–nonhuman conviviality by foregrounding issues of race, colonialism, and exploitation, and calls for a reconceptualization of justice that moves beyond liberal humanism to address historical and structural violences across species lines. The collection emphasizes plural, processual approaches to justice while warning against the co-optation of progressive discourses by reactionary forces, advocating for critical, imaginative, and context-specific engagements with multispecies futures.
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