The mystery of the sleeping kitty

Two years back (my photo was from Dec 2022), my brother received this weird sleeping kitty as a free gift when buying something online.

(Pen is placed there for size comparison)

It’s soft and squishy, and I wondered a lot about what it was.

After some online research, I found that it was a squishy stress relief toy.

Adding a picture here in case that link stops working later:

Anyway, I put it in a display cupboard and forgot about it.

Then yesterday, I happened to look at it and...

This is what it looked like!

What happened?!?!

It looks like it has melted...is the weather too hot?!?!

It is still soft and squishy...but more sticky now. Into the dustbin it goes... bye-bye kitty...