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Despite Leiths protests, she remembers her mother insisting, Darling, it has to be done.
They are only a few hours old.
They will hardly know its happening.
Growing up on a farm in South Africa, Leiths family often had too many kittens.
Her mother, unable to find a new home for the latest batch, decided they had to die.
Understandably, the restaurateur wrote that she was haunted by thoughts of dead kittens for weeks thereafter.
To no ones surprise, she also expressed her support for the neutering and spaying of pets.
