Hi Jenn! Maybe this isn’t really a question for you, but I don’t know where else to go. If I write a story from the POV of an animal, but it’s just doing ordinary animal things, is that considered speculative fiction, just because it isn’t from a regular human POV? I did some research and found something called xenofiction, and that seems to suggest that anything from animal POVs is speculative? Help!

You are overthinking this. There are lots of books from the POV of animals. You call them the genre they are, just as though they were about humans, but if you want you can add "animal" to it. The ones that are fantastical, like Gaurdians of Ga'Hoole for example, Owls going to magical owl school, etc, are called FANTASY. (If you want to get more specific than that, "Animal Fantasy" or…