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Jessa Duggar (Jessica Duggar-Seewald) did a radio interview yesterday to discuss her family’s reality show, pregnancy, adoption and whether her brother-in-law is a cat-hating monster. I’m including the audio at the end of the post. Jessa actually breaks some news in this piece, although she doesn’t want to really confirm anything on a little radio show. She’s asked point-blank is she’s pregnant and she seems to say that she’s still not – even after four months of marriage, shock! – and says she and Ben are open to adoption, but in Arkansas they have to be married for two years before they can adopt. So Jessa says she and Ben will try for biological children and adopted children.

Jessa was also asked about the incident with her brother-in-law Derick Dillard. Derick is married to Jessa’s sister Jill, and I guess Jessa, Jill, Derick and Ben are all pretty close in age. Derick has not issued any statements about the Instagram video he posted where he seemed to be aiming his sled at a cat, then seemingly runs over the kitty with the makeshift sled. In the video, you can see the cat jump away. It looked pretty cruel and PETA even issued a statement about it. As I said, Dillard hasn’t said anything about it, but Jessa Duggar did. Jessa denies the cat-hurting incident completely.

First, Jessa says that the incident was completely blown out of proportion, and “Our hills are very uneven, so he started to sled and the cat just happened to be there and the cat jumped out of the way. I don’t know if you saw the video or whatnot but he didn’t hit the cat. It didn’t get run over.” She says the cat lives close to them and they see the cat all the time and the cat is fine. The cat didn’t have to go to the hospital. Allegedly. Do you believe her? I do not. I mean, I believe the cat is fine, but I don’t believe that Derick was completely innocent and that he would never aim his sled at a harmless animal. He was aiming at the cat and he sucks as a person.

The cat discussion is around the 6-minute mark.

And here’s the cat video again:

Sledding with friends and family at the Duggar home #smallestsled

A video posted by Derick Dillard (@derickdillard) on Feb 28, 2015 at 9:18pm PST

Photos courtesy of Duggar’s social media.
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