They're punctuation pets. Whenever someone overuses punctuation (i.e., "What does
Kelly mean?????"), those punctuation marks are said to be abused. We rescue them and put them up for adoption to good homes.
P.S. My own question marks helped with my
Kelly example. They were quite willing to do so for the sake of their brethren, so no punctuation was harmed in the making of this post.
Miranda

Proud adopter of 15 PPs. See my profile for their names.