Meet “Vaska and Barsik”
🐾✨ Vaska & Barsik are Ready for Adoption! ✨🐾
Meet the newest (and most handsome 😻) little tabby brothers — Vaska and Barsik — just turned 8 weeks old and officially ready for their forever homes! 🎉🐾
These two are stunning, soft, and full of personality. They take after their mama in the best way possible — sweet, gentle, and deeply affectionate ❤️
Vaska and Barsik LOVE other cats 🐈⬛🐈 and would thrive either adopted together or into a home with another friendly kitty companion. Kittens truly do best in pairs 💕 so double the love is always a win.
They have not been around dogs or small children yet, so they’ll need slow, thoughtful introductions in those environments 🐶👶💛
What they do have in abundance:
🐾 Big, happy purrs
🍽️ Serious love for food
🎾 Endless play energy
😻 And the ability to make you smile every single day
These boys are pure joy wrapped in tabby stripes 🐅💕
Their story starts in a neighborhood where we worked hard to remove the adult cats and stop the cycle of breeding. Their mama was extremely smart, very gentle, and trap-savvy — and kept managing to avoid capture 🥀
She has had multiple litters we know of. Each time, she would try to move her babies to safer hiding places to protect them from tom cats… and heartbreakingly, some of her kittens did not survive 💔 (road danger, predators, and outdoor life are brutal realities we see far too often). No more babies need to suffer.
These boys have been with the rescue since they were about 3 weeks old 🐾 When mama briefly moved them and tried to hide them again, we stepped in immediately to ensure they were safe, warm, and never exposed to danger again ❤️
And the best news — their mama is now safe too and on her way to an adopter 🏡✨ She will never again have to try to hide or protect herself or her babies on the street. No more fear, no more survival mode. Just safety and a real life ❤️
Now Vaska and Barsik are healthy, thriving, and ready for indoor-only homes where their story continues safely 🏡✨
They are:
🐾 Neutered (age-appropriate)
💉 Vaccinated (age-appropriate FVRCP)
🪱 Dewormed
🐾 Flea treated
📍 Microchipped
🚽 Litter box trained
🏠 Indoor-only homes required
💲 Adoption fee: $125 each or $185 for both brothers together, kittens do best with a another kitty in the house!
📲 Text 858-883-4222 for an application and to meet them! Same-day adoptions available.
These boys are pure sunshine with whiskers ☀️🐾 Whoever adopts them is going to laugh every day.
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