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A woman was left gobsmacked after her cat underwent a dramatic transformation while she was away for a month . Lina Redford entrusted her Abyssinian cat, Sinbad, to her mum while she took up an artist's residency. During this period, the feline experienced some lifestyle changes that were evident when Lina returned. Lina has since revealed the astonishing changes in her pet. The alterations in the cat's appearance left her lost for words. Her mother, who already had pets of her own that were "spoiled" with fancy toys and treats, was the one looking after Sinbad. However, it was the treats that worried Lina, who spoke to Newsweek about the shocking change in her cherished pet . She said: "I travelled to Prague, where my mum lives, and I stayed there for two weeks until Sinbad got accustomed to the changes. Of course, I was sad leaving him for so long, but I wasn't nervous." "I couldn't believe that my hyperactive cat managed to get that fat." It appears that Sinbad's significant weight gain is due to her mum's experimentation with the cat's diet. She continued: "My mum, in a message, said, 'I was testing new food brands and flavours, but he was eating everything okay, except for the rabbit.." Before being left at her mother's home in Prague, Sinbad weighed approximately 12 pounds. After her trip, Lina says the cat now weighs 14.7 pounds. Lina provided more details about what happened in the comments of a now-viral Instagram post. She penned: "How it happened: my mum has two lovely Bengals, who know their limits and I left my cat with her while I was away, but he doesn't know his limit neither he understood that he couldn't steal food from Bengals." The public were quick to voice their opinions on the situation. One individual commented: "Oh no. This would make me so mad. You trusted them with your cat and they abused it. That cat is probably so uncomfortable I hope he lost the weight." Another chimed in: "I would be absolutely furious." A third remarked: "How does one manage to get such an athletic breed to fatten up like this like I just can't fathom how an Abyssinian ended up like this." Sinbad has since shed the weight gained during his stay with Lina's mother. The artist revealed: "She felt like she overdid it with Sinbad, but she tried to give him more exercises and made him run upstairs and downstairs to lose weight."
