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Ohio woman, 79, sentenced to prison for feeding stray cats
FNC ^ | 7/30/2019 | Staff

Posted on 07/30/2019 2:01:56 PM PDT by Boomer

A 79-year-old self-described "cat lover" has been given a dose of paw and order by local authorities, who sentenced her to spend more than a week behind bars for continually doling out munchies to the neighborhood mousers.

In Garfield Heights, Ohio, it's considered a minor misdemeanor to offer food to stray cats and dogs, according to Cleveland.com. Nancy Segula, a resident of the city who has received multiple citations for feeding stray felines, was ordered by a judge last week to spend 10 days in jail, Fox 8 reports.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: cat; catlady; cats; crazycatlady; kittyping; nancysegula; segula; straycats
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To: Boomer

We don’t really have cats here. Coyote eat them.


21 posted on 07/30/2019 2:19:10 PM PDT by MarMema (breeding tauntauns in northern Michigan - soon to be for sale!)
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To: Innovative

Yup....there could be many reasons for something like that to happen. To see it up close in real-time shakes you up.


22 posted on 07/30/2019 2:19:40 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: LongWayHome

Cats have diseases that cause people to go insane.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/

A parasite found in cat feces has been linked with psychosis, schizophrenia, and bipolar disease. ... But some people, men and women, can go from obsession to madness.
https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/article/2612


23 posted on 07/30/2019 2:21:27 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Red Badger

“Round up the cats, ship them to Baltimore.

Solves two problems at the same time...................”

I like the way you think!


24 posted on 07/30/2019 2:23:05 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Boomer

If I was 79 years old and some idiot prosecutor convicted me I would laugh my ass off because I would need the free medical care they would have to provide.

There’s a reason governments in the US usually never send really old people and bums to prison, there’s no money to be had, just expenses.


25 posted on 07/30/2019 2:24:11 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Freeper formerly known as WMarshal.......)
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To: SMGFan

“some cities forbid feeding the pigeons”

Pigeons make wonderful table fare for the budgeting urban dweller.


26 posted on 07/30/2019 2:24:50 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: MarMema

“We don’t really have cats here. Coyote eat them.”

We don’t really have too many coyotes but I have seen one. In my neck of the woods here in Eastern Virginia, when a fox moves into the neighborhood the cats and the rabbits start to disappear.


27 posted on 07/30/2019 2:27:31 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Boomer

Stray cats and dogs bad. Trespassing foreigners good. WTH?


28 posted on 07/30/2019 2:28:24 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: LongWayHome
“Cats & women...strange thing. I watched a perfectly solid, middle-aged women go from an attractive & vivacious professional to a shabby, run-down cat-lady with 40+ cats inside & outside her home within 2 or 3 years. spent all her time in money caring & feeding them.”

I'm going to guess that she had no children and that she was probably satisfying her need to raise children with cats.

I'm fond of animals and I believe they need to be treated with respect and compassion. However people who call their pets “fur babies” and are neglecting the human drive for a family of their own need psychological counseling.

29 posted on 07/30/2019 2:28:51 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Freeper formerly known as WMarshal.......)
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To: Red Badger

Great idea!


30 posted on 07/30/2019 2:29:06 PM PDT by caww
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To: wildcard_redneck

YES! I hate the term “furbaby” Your furbaby is an animal. Period.


31 posted on 07/30/2019 2:32:43 PM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
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To: minnesota_bound

32 posted on 07/30/2019 2:33:00 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Clutch Martin

Back in the early 70s when I was working in Manhattan I saw a large flock of pigeons on the sidewalk feeding on something scattered about. Suddenly a man appeared out of the nearby alleyway with a large, long handled fishing style landing net and scoped up a bunch of them, doing a half-flip of the handle to trap them inside.

I wonder which restaurant had the pigeon special that night?


33 posted on 07/30/2019 2:34:24 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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meow


34 posted on 07/30/2019 2:34:47 PM PDT by deport
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To: wildcard_redneck

For many; animals are seen as being better than the average person.

I don’t agree one is a replacement for the other. More like a preference than a replacement.

I personally find being around my animals easy but being around family, friends, or acquaintances to be work. You might need to reassess your reasoning. Perhaps some psychological counseling is in order.


35 posted on 07/30/2019 2:37:04 PM PDT by Boomer
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To: Boomer

I hate cats, mostly because I am horribly allergic to them(really, like deathly allergic), and they kill countless birds(which I am also deathly allergic to).
I still feed them both.


36 posted on 07/30/2019 2:38:29 PM PDT by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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To: minnesota_bound

Thanks for those links.


37 posted on 07/30/2019 2:39:26 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: wildcard_redneck

Correct. No children & divorced.


38 posted on 07/30/2019 2:40:11 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: LongWayHome

Sounds like my niece. She is 43 and her 12 year old daughter and her cats are her life. I see her, someday, becoming that shabby rundown cat lady when her daughter grows up and moves out.


39 posted on 07/30/2019 2:42:02 PM PDT by sneakers (It's not the democraTIC party! It's the demoCRAT party!)
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To: minnesota_bound

I think you nailed it.


40 posted on 07/30/2019 2:43:58 PM PDT by MarMema (breeding tauntauns in northern Michigan - soon to be for sale!)
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