I feel for ya, Bob!! Tho he wasn't your's you probably still had developed an attachment to him. Last Jan.,at Linda's insistence, we rescued a 2 month old feral kitten. He was soaking wet and crawling thru the snow in the street, and as cats will do, guess who he's bonded with? Yeah, the guy who doesn't care for cats, but we're buddies now and we have a lot of fun with him. Starting out life feral he does have some strange behavior at times, nothing really wild, it's like he's bipolar, LOL. We think he was badly abused as the first vertebra of his tail was torn loose from his spine and just hung limp. Our vet removed the tail but cautioned us if he cut the spinal cord wrong it would cripple his hips and we told him if that came to pass to put him down. The vet also nutted him. Obviously it was a success. Linda named him Tom Tom but I call him spook because he's always on high alert and ready to run. I also call him squeak because with my hearing aids out I can barely him. Anyway we've given him a good home and he repays us with his funny antics.
Mike