Stan is based on an actual neighbor I lived across the hall from back in my old apartment complex. I changed the name to protect the innocent, and the real neighbor looked nothing like Stan here, but the attitude and loopiness is the same. He was really dedicated to feeding the neighbor cats, which was sweet; but he was at it all day and night, and sometimes I could tell the cats were not really into it. They took the free food, of course, but otherwise they wanted nothing to do with him, and often ran away as soon as they saw him. I suspect they didn’t like the deworming and the flea baths.