Indeed, I cannot remember her when she hadn't a family in one stage or another.

She was not very particular what sort of a family it was.

If she could not have kittens, then she would content herself with puppies or rats.

Anything that she could wash and feed seemed to satisfy her.

I believe she would have brought up chickens if we had entrusted them to her.
All her brains must have run to motherliness, for she hadn't much sense.
She could never tell the difference between her own children and other people's.