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SARAH A. BOWEN is program director of the Animal Chaplaincy Training program at Compassion Consortium, the first interfaith, interspiritual, and interspecies community. Visit sarahabowen.com.
That explains the initial naming, I thought to myself with annoyance. How long had this cat sat in his cage because of the snarky moniker bestowed upon him? In order to right the wrong I perceived, I added an honorific, the reverent suffix -ji. And that is how Bubbaji received yet another alias.
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