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No passport, no problem. Meet the border-hopping cat who comes and goes as he pleases 10%
By Kayla McLean0%
3/19/2026, 2:32:47 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 25 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Halo Effect, and Biased Writer Voice, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 54% saturation with 259 hits. Analysis detected 1,495 faulty-reasoning hits from 480 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 26.8% and a BS Rank of 10% (19,782 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 90.40% of the article peer group.
On Zero Avenue in South Surrey, B.C. lives a cat without a care in the world, and a supercilious name to match.
Louis Vuitton has become a local legend for doing with ease what most humans wouldn’t dare.
Each day, he leaps back and forth across a narrow ditch that sits smack dab on the Canada-U.S. border.
“He hasn’t always been such a rebel, but he is extremely friendly,” Deb Tate, Louis' owner, told As It Happens host Nil Koksal.
He just loves people, says Tate, and he doesn't care what side of the border they're on.
“He will walk up, greet people, get his pats and belly rubs and then continue on when he’s done.”
<h2>Going viral</h2>
On one side of the ditch is a row of charming homes, including his own, on Canadian soil.
On the other are the green fields of Peace Arch Historical State Park in the United States.
There aren't any fences, just a street in between and a shallow divide.
According to Tate, there are plenty of cameras and hawk-eyed border guards patrolling nearby, ready to pounce on illegal crossers.
But none of that seems to concern Louis, who trapezes across whenever he wants, with the air of someone who knows the rules, and chooses to ignore them.
Louis, who turns six on Canada Day, has been lapping up all the attention from locals since he caught the eye of Instagram user @pnwdaily360, who posted a now viral video about “the border-hopping kitty.”
Louis' owner, Deb Tate says he's been known to occasionally smuggle "goods" across the border and leave them on her doorstep.
“There’s a cat that doesn’t really give a f--k about borders,” says the user in the video.
“And he comes over and hunts in the ditch.
There he is.
What’s up buddy?”
The video has since garnered over 220,000 likes and three million views on Instagram.
<h2>A smuggler, too</h2>
Tate says Louis even has a habit of smuggling things across the border, dropping it ever so thoughtfully on her doorstep.
“He’s been known to bring home a treat or two from his adventures,” said Tate.
“We’ve received everything from snakes and mice and squirrels, much to my chagrin.”
As for his name, Tate says it wasn't given to him because he has a penchant for luxury goods at duty-free prices.
“He’s a rescue kitty, and we decided that coming from humble beginnings, he deserved a designer name,” said Tate.
“We just named him Louis and … he has just grown in to fill the personality, and more.”
So far, Tate says there’s been no word from the actual Louis Vuitton fashion house.
“Who knows what the coming days and weeks will bring, but for now, [Louis is] completely oblivious and just loving life,” said Tate.
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