Yes, it's true. The four legged feline variety. Or in our case 2x4.
The only slightly worrying thing about them is their names.
Yes, Reggie and Ronnie.
I think they may have to be re-christened. Veggie and Bonnie?
Unless of course you have better suggestions. And somehow I feel you might. The boy is a big handsome ginger fellow and the girl is a small pretty tabby. Johnny is keen on calling them both Colin. Honestly, naming is not our strongest suit.
We pick them up next Saturday. And on Sunday I morph into dotty woman who takes too many pictures of her cats.
Yay, your own cats!! No more stealing next door's!!!!
Posted by: Karen J | 04 October 2009 at 16:36
Reggie and Ronnie sounds ideal to me......
Posted by: AngelJem | 04 October 2009 at 17:26
Congrats!, can't wait to see them.
Posted by: Jennifer | 04 October 2009 at 17:29
How funny. My parents have had two sets of cats and all four were named "Cat and the other cat." I can't wait to see photos.
Posted by: Jennifer | 04 October 2009 at 17:36
congratulations. We're still thinking about taking the plunge ourselves. I do like Colin. My friend's cats were called Eric and John (and they were female), I always thought it was very cute. A x
Posted by: little pink room | 04 October 2009 at 17:55
Thing 1 and Thing 2?
Sorry, naming isn't my strong suit either. We pinched the name of my sister's cat to give to our hamster!
Posted by: dottycookie | 04 October 2009 at 17:57
Eric and Ernie
Richard and Judy
Starsky and Hutch
Mouse and Rat
Posted by: Annie | 04 October 2009 at 18:03
Richard and Judy! Richard and Judy!!
Posted by: trashalou | 04 October 2009 at 18:27
oh how exciting... we adopted our two feline boys a year ago on the 1st of october and we just adore them.. and yes i morphed into to cat photographing woman ~ though black cats are incredibly hard to photograph i have discovered... so you make the right choice with a ginger and a tabby... looking forward to meeting them in blog land.
x
Posted by: ginny | 04 October 2009 at 18:48
... forgot to say that ours had actually been named Bert and Ernie by the vets who had taken them in... my girls took the responsibility though to rename them so they are now Magic and Paws.
p.s. i do rather like Bonnie and Veggie!
Posted by: ginny | 04 October 2009 at 18:53
Bonnie and Clyde...
Posted by: Rattling On | 04 October 2009 at 18:59
Bonnie and Clyde? My mother's cats are called Bonnie and Clyde. Nice names for Cats ..
Or what about Sonny and Cher ..?
French and Saunders?
Sid and Nancy ...
I could go on ..
oh .. what about Posh and Becks?
xxx
Posted by: JuliaB | 04 October 2009 at 19:58
oh .. what about Cleo (as in Rochas) and Kenny (as in Everrett) ..
I can see i'm going to be thinking of names all night long!!!
Posted by: JuliaB | 04 October 2009 at 19:59
Gin & Tonic always go well together!
Posted by: grumpy | 04 October 2009 at 20:33
need pics before I can come up with name suggestions...
What fun...they'll be climbing the curtains in no time!
Posted by: Pebbledash | 04 October 2009 at 21:20
Reggie - Regina - Queenie?
Ronnie -Nonnie?
I think you should study them for a few days - I'm sure their personalities will give you a starting point.
Posted by: Gigibird | 04 October 2009 at 21:29
hope they settle in well ! our cats were from a rescue home, and had been named after scooby doo characters, we left velma, daphne and scooby, and brought home Fred and shaggy, which is an interesting name to shout last thing at night when I want them to come in.....
Posted by: driftwood | 04 October 2009 at 21:49
Punch and Judy?
Niles and Daphne?
I like Bonnie and Clyde too.
Posted by: suse | 04 October 2009 at 23:18
We adopted 2 kittens from the pound. Daphne and Maris. (I just love 'Frasier'. )
It's been two years now and they are excellent company for each other.
Posted by: Frogdancer | 04 October 2009 at 23:20
Ha ha, Richard and Judy made me laugh!
Posted by: lina | 05 October 2009 at 01:07
A stray had a litter of 6 kittens in our backyard. We kept them for 8 weeks and fed them up and humanised them, and then took 4 kittens to Animal Welfare and they have new homes (one of the hardest things I've ever had to do).
My 5 year old named them all - we have Honey (the mum), and kept Raindrop (tabby) and Button (Black with white toes), and gave away Smudge (tabby), Gumdrop (tabby), Oscar (tabby & white) and Lollipop (black). If we get any more animals in the future, she gets to name them too! We took many, many photos (all on my blog, of course) and loved them all to bits.
Hope your new cats settle in as well as ours have done (they have taken over the house and us).
Posted by: Elaine Shipp | 05 October 2009 at 01:58
I cannot get beyond the thought that you are adopting the Kray brothers. Village life would become quite interesting - move over, Agatha.
Posted by: Alice C | 05 October 2009 at 07:17
I'm quite speechless. Two????
and I'd go for Colin... cats don't answer to names anyway so have fun!!
Posted by: monica | 05 October 2009 at 08:10
Can't wait to see the two new kit cats!
Am no good at names, you have had some great ideas. Friends of ours adopted one called Dave and changed it to Pickle, we thought Dave was fab!
Lisa x
Posted by: Lisa | 05 October 2009 at 10:10
I rather like Colin for a cat, we have a book with a cat called Colin, I think it is called "Q Pootle 5", I always read him with a Birmingham accent for some reason. Perhaps they could be Colins and Phil.
I'm sorry, that's very poor, I will hang my head in shame and slink away......
Posted by: Rebecca | 05 October 2009 at 11:20
Congratulations - I'm sure they will have a very happy life once they get settled in. We adopted a cat almost two years ago - one of the best things we've ever done.
Posted by: Laura VW | 05 October 2009 at 11:51
My husband used to have a cat called ceefor! Little boys humor.
Eric and Ernie?
Fred and Ginger?
Posted by: French Knots | 05 October 2009 at 13:17
we had the same combination of colour/sex, many years ago - our then little girls named them marmalade and toast!
Posted by: anne | 05 October 2009 at 15:33
I quite like Reggie and Ronnie!
Or how about Wedgie and Thongie!!!!!
We don't have a cat, just a big ginger tom who belongs to our elderly neighbour next door called........Jason....Orange! (the orange was added by my neighbour the other side! Makes me giggle every time!)
Thanks for your comment by the way, we are a bit more settled - could do with winning the lottery though!
Posted by: Simply h | 05 October 2009 at 17:29
I totally concur with Johnny's choice of name - Colin the Cats :)
xxx
Posted by: Lesley | 06 October 2009 at 09:32
sorry, can't help you with the names..hard enough with our own kids! (hence no middle names for them)
But YAY....you'll have a girl in the house!
oh, what about colin and cleo?
Posted by: Tiel | 06 October 2009 at 12:05
What fun you're all going to have with your new arrivals - Saturday will definitely be a very exciting day in your house. Looking forward to all the pictures and to finding out if they keep their names or become Colins.
Posted by: Julie | 06 October 2009 at 14:51
Hahaha, can't wait to see them. Girl Cat and Boy Cat!
Posted by: Thimbleanna | 06 October 2009 at 23:05
I think calling them both Colin is just about perfect.
Posted by: Megan | 07 October 2009 at 09:08
Ha, the Richard and Judy suggestion made me laugh. I was going to suggest Fred and Ginger (with Fred being the female cat.) Or how about George and Mildred (although that's probably showing my age!)
I do like Colin as a name for both of them too. Somebody I used to work with had a cat called Colin who lived to be 21 years old. He felt the cold so much as he got older she had to knit him little jumpers to wear.
Posted by: Elizabeth | 07 October 2009 at 16:49
I quite like 'Maris' and 'Piper'.. Both names that stand alone well, but go together. Personally I don't like names that only make sense as a pair, like Fish & Chips. Ours is officially called Smudge, but is more commonly known as Smog (thick and grey) or Beastie. Occasionally as 'You Little B**ch' as she's not very nice!
Posted by: Dawn | 07 October 2009 at 20:10
How fun, new cats! I think someone already said they hardly listen to names so go ahead and name them anything, but a small warning though: My grandfathers wife (oh, don't all good stories start like that) got a cat and named it Surprise. It was all good untill one day it ran away and she was running around the town yelling SURPRISE!!! into every bush she saw. She found the cat but there were some people hwo avoided her long after, they thought she'd gone nutts.:)) So anything u can yell into the bushes is fine.
Posted by: Sofisan | 08 October 2009 at 08:28
I'm like Bonnie and Clyde too!
Enjoy having eight little legs running round your house - can't wait to see lots of pictures!
And it's the best time of year to get them too - you and your husband will both have a furry hot water bottle keeping you warm over the winter! x
Posted by: PinkCat | 08 October 2009 at 08:51
We had a kitten we called Colin once. When he went to live with his new family, they changed the name - can't think why.
Before we knew that Stevie was a girl cat, she was going to be called Steve.
How about Dave for a boy cat?
Is one a girl too - you could call her Margaret, or Maggie for short.
Monda
x
Posted by: Monda | 08 October 2009 at 10:48
Can't wait to see the photos. I'm pretty crap at names, R&R sounds good to me !
Posted by: rhubarb | 08 October 2009 at 12:34
How about 'Big Ginge' and 'Little Lady'!!!!x
Posted by: Simone | 08 October 2009 at 16:30
I'm with whoever it was that said after a few days their personalities will tell you what their names should be!
When we had cats, one started off as Chablis, but it felt wrong and metamorphosed into Abacat (after the Genesis album Abacab - how sad), Abby for short. The other cats was Little Madam, or Maddie for short right from the start.
Posted by: Annabel | 08 October 2009 at 20:44
As the proud owner of two cats - more pics of them on my blog than of my children! - this is exciting news indeed. I think naming our cats has just about always been as hard as naming the children for sure. Many years ago we thought so long about what to call our first ginger boy that 'the ginger one' easily morphed into 'Ginger' as his name and of course it suited him very well. Now Leo (who was already named when we got him) gets Big Boy more often than not and Lola answers to Lola Lulu or Mummy's Precious Baby. I know! Good luck. Bx
Posted by: Barbara | 09 October 2009 at 16:13
COngratulations on your happy, hairy event. I hope your week has been full of cat fun and all is well.
Posted by: Emma | 10 October 2009 at 10:34
Oooh! Exciting! We picked up our new bunny today - and I've definitely morphed into an over-excited new mum that takes far too many photos! I've already blogged about him as well!
Lucy x
Posted by: Lucy Locket-Pocket | 10 October 2009 at 19:32
I'd like to help but we have had a cat and her (now well grown) Kitten for 9 years and she's still called Mummy.
He was named Jools by my sons after Jools Holland owing to his charisma. (His brother who was run over was called Moby.)
Other cats we've had in Chronological order:
Fluffy, Emma, Scruffy, Aggie, Snuffy, Corky, Marmie,Nipper(named after a brand of mousetrap)Priddy,and Spike.
Posted by: jackie | 11 October 2009 at 23:28
(HE..I should have said 'her son'.)
Posted by: jackie | 11 October 2009 at 23:29
How about Grace and Orlando after Kathleen Hale's cat books?
Posted by: Jane Rudder | 14 October 2009 at 11:11
They sound so sweet! We've got Lucy and Jimmy -- both named by my older daughter.
Posted by: Readersguide | 15 October 2009 at 21:11
Hmmm. Just read the Wikipedia link. I do think you have to rename them. I'm now remembering that Lucy came with the name Misty. She didn't mind at all that we changed it. And Jimmy is her son. (ha!)
Posted by: Readersguide | 15 October 2009 at 21:14