Photos of Rebo & Zootie
Ken & Carolyn's Cats

Photos by Ken Mayer
Rebo & Zootie steal Ken's computer chair
Rebo looked up from his bath for this
Zootie in the middle of Carolyn's sewing stuff

Some folk have asked "What kind of name are those?" ... well, when we got them, Babylon 5 (a favorite Science Fiction series) was still on the air, and there were two commedians named Rebo and Zooty (I didn't know the spelling of "Zooty" at the time). Someone suggested them as possible names and I thought that was perfect. It does sort of fit. The characters were portrayed by the magician/commedians Penn and Teller, with Penn (long hair, talks) portraying Rebo, and Teller (short hair, doesn't talk during performances) portraying Zooty. We named the long-haired cat Rebo and the short-haired one was named Zootie. Little did we know that Rebo would end up being the talker and Zootie the quiet one -- it was fitting, but ...

(Of course, they've grown -- boy have they grown! We do have more photos, you can see those in the photo album part of the website ... if anything, they're more charming than ever, and MUCH larger ... these photos were taken in 1999 ...)

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