Bobert, I trusted you weren't REALLY going to take your two cats to the Humane Society, but I am surprised that no one expressed outrage before you fessed up that you were keeping them!
I'm interested that both you and Helen have had cats with a squeaky name. My cat is Squeakyfish. The first part of her name is precisely because she never used to meow but only squeak. Now, she meows and makes little "Prup" sounds and a bunch of other things but for many years she just went "eeee, eeee!"