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The only thing the folks in this town hate more than Mondays is feeding stray cats.

A 79-year-old Ohio woman is going to be spending 10 days in jail next month for the crime of giving food to random felines — and that sentence was handed down by an official in a town called Garfield Heights, according to reports.

Nancy Segula — a self-described “cat lover” — received the stiff sentence last week in court following her fourth and latest citation for the caring act, according to Cleveland’s Fox 8.

Segula began feeding the felines in 2017 when her then-neighbor moved and left his cats behind, the report said.

“I would always feed them and care for them because I was worried about them and I’m a cat lover,” she told the outlet.

“Once my neighbors got upset about it, they called the animal warden.”

Segula received her first citation in 2017. Since then, she’s had three more, and finally she was ordered to jail last week by a local magistrate.

Her son, Dave Pawlowski, feels the sentence — which is scheduled to begin Aug. 11 — is overkill.

“I couldn’t believe what my mother was telling me. She gets 10 days in the county jail, I couldn’t believe it,” Pawlowski said.

“I’m sure people hear about the things that happen downtown in that jail. And they are going to let my 79-year-old mother go there?”

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