Building on ongoing fieldwork, my ethnographic project explores animal rearing practices among women farmers and its emotional valences of caring, killing, and eating. The first question that this research begins with is: How do animals become meat? Stretching from this question are several others that focus on fluids, rituals, relations, settings, spaces, and actors that contribute to animals becoming meat. A key intervention of this project is proposing tarbiyya as a conceptual and methodological tool to understanding human-animal relations in Egypt and the Middle East more broadly. Commonly used to refer to rearing animals for food but also rearing human children, tarbiyya is an Arabic word that exposes the nurturing and disciplining components of relating to specific nonhuman animals. In my project, I primarily explore caring and killing in multispecies contexts. I point out some parallels, potential overlaps, and ways of bridging caring and killing as complementary components of human-animal relations in various contexts. While existing literature on multispecies care illustrates that caring always exists alongside its violent sides, little has been said about how these sides relate to each other, or more specifically the role that these violent sides play. In putting in conversation literature on multispecies care and killing animals alongside psychoanalytic views on care, I propose that in some cases, caring is the work that allows killing to be a routinized, unsurprising, and an easier decision. Caring is the practice, directionality, and effort through which humans overcome the distance from and unknowability of animals. This overcoming of distance allows humans to kill or commit other forms of violence to animals, often under the veneer of heroic care