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"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Ophelia wrote:
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>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
>> ...
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>> > Yes. We had a cat who killed all but one kitten and it was only a
>> > matter
>> > of time before she got to the last one.

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>> A friend's cat once ate her kittens

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> I don't think it's common (or natural) for any animal mother to kill
> her babies. I have read somewhere in the past that they will do this
> if there is a problem with the offspring. Like a genetic defect or
> something. Only humans will keep birth defective babies, but then we
> have hospitals and animals don't.


Our cat mated with her father. She killed the deformed ones. One looked
fine but we doubted that it really was.