A Florida woman will serve time behind bars after she left her pets behind to starve to death when she moved in with her boyfriend, authorities said.

Ashley Alicea, 26, pleaded guilty Wednesday to cruelty to animals and unlawful abandonment or confinement of an animal for the deaths of her dog and cat, the Palm Beach Post reported.

She was sentenced to four months in jail and another two years of probation.

Authorities said that Alicea left the cat, Pablo, and dog, a Pomeranian-Chihuahua mix named Moose, behind last January in her Boynton Beach apartment that was being taken over by a new tenant.

Alicea agreed to continue to pay the rent while the man, whom she didn’t know, lived there as long as he paid for the electricity and water bills.

She claimed she did not bring her pets to live with her boyfriend because animals were not allowed.

Alicea, however, said that she didn’t explicitly instruct the stranger to look after the animals, but “figured that he would since she was paying rent,” according to the Palm Beach Post.

The pets were found dead from lack of food and water in May after a someone reported there was a foul odor and flies swarming around the apartment, police said.