Seven of them. 3 countries. No list anywhere until now.
A cat walk is a route through a neighbourhood, past cats whose people have put them in a window, a catio or a front garden for the afternoon. You walk. They sit. Everybody is delighted.
It began in Minneapolis in 2017. John Edwards had been on a walking tour that pointed at buildings and decided his neighbourhood had something better to point at. He mapped a route past a few cat households. Thirty people came.
The 2025 one drew over five hundred, including a woman in a t-shirt reading “I traveled 2000 miles to see your cats”. There are now seven of these on two continents, five founded in the last two years, and none of them knew about each other. So here they all are.
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · June · free
The first one. Thirty people in 2017, thousands now, and the reason every other walk on this page exists.
🇨🇦 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada · late May · free
Seven and a half kilometres of Victoria, twenty-nine stops, forty-one cats, and a vote at the end.
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States · spring and late summer · free
Two neighbours, one walkabout, a viral TikTok, and second place for Best Tour in the whole of Portland.
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States · August · free
A free window-cat stroll from For Paws PDX, run in memory of a cat called Pickles.
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States · August · free
Chicago’s first, and the only one that comes with a cinema screening attached.
🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States · late August
The only one with a double decker bus, and the only one you can enter your own cat into.
🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · August · free
Pittsburgh’s first, starting from a park in Brighton Heights.
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada · September · free
The one that made the format go viral: twenty-one cats, fifteen stops, and a TikTok that took it worldwide.
🇨🇦 Montréal, Quebec, Canada · July and August
Three and a half kilometres of Villeray, about a dozen cats in windows and on balconies, in aid of a rescue.
🇮🇪 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland · late June, with the Stoneybatter Festival · free
Europe’s one, as far as we can find: twenty Stoneybatter households, a map, and a portrait if your cat will not come to the window.
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States · October · free
Lincoln Square drew three thousand people, so Chicago is doing it again in October, in costume.
🇺🇸 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States · November · free
A vet practice walks the neighbourhood with you, stopping to introduce every nominated cat on the way.
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States · September
Not a cat walk, and the oldest thing here by a decade: ten backyard cat enclosures, since 2013.
Chonk Finder is the other three hundred and sixty four days. Photograph a cat you meet and it becomes a trading card with a name, a rarity and two attacks. Find the same cat four times, with other people, and it becomes a Chonk.
Take it on one of these walks and every cat on the route is a card. Take it down your own street and so is every cat there.
Free, and no sign-up.
Name it, say where it is, and the map, the host form and the brochure are made for you. Host a cat walk
Tell us and it goes up, with a link straight to you. If you would like proper printed cards for the cats on your route, free, for people to take home, we can do that too. hello@chonkfinder.app
Not a walk, just cats? Where to find cats: guides with a walk and a map.
