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🇨🇦 Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Montreal Cat Tour

Three and a half kilometres of Villeray, about a dozen cats in windows and on balconies, in aid of a rescue.

3.5km
12cats
WhenJuly and Augustlast held 5 August 2025
FormatSelf-guidedticketed
Run byChatons Orphelins Montréal

Run by Chatons Orphelins Montréal, a rescue, which makes this one of the few on the list that exists to raise money rather than to raise a neighbourhood’s spirits. It is ticketed, and the ticket is the donation.

The route runs three and a half kilometres through Villeray past about a dozen homes whose cats sit in windows and on balconies. The cats stay inside throughout and nobody touches anybody, which is the arrangement most of these walks land on once they have thought about it.

Dates move every year. Chatons Orphelins Montréal has this year’s.

Nobody has caught a cat in Montréal yet.

Not one. The whole city is unclaimed, which means every cat you meet on this walk is a first find with your name on it, permanently, on a card nobody else can have.

Someone is going to be first.

Walking it? Bring a Chonk-dex.

Chonk Finder turns the cats you meet into trading cards. It works on the route, and it works on your own street on a Tuesday, which is the bit the walk cannot do.

  1. Meet a catOn the route, in a window, on a wall. Any cat counts.
  2. Take its photoYou get a card back: a name, a rarity, and two attacks it did not consent to.
  3. Find it againFour different people find the same cat and it becomes a Chonk. Permanently.
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