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🇨🇦 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Fernwood Cat Walk

Seven and a half kilometres of Victoria, twenty-nine stops, forty-one cats, and a vote at the end.

7.5km
29stops
41cats

Next one: 29 May 2027

Whenlate May
FormatSelf-guidedfree to attend
StartsLittle Fernwood, 1921 Fernwood Rd #8, Victoria BC
Run byFernwood Catwalksince 2025

Fernwood runs the longest walk on this list: a 7.5 kilometre self-guided ramble around one of Victoria’s oldest neighbourhoods, past houses whose people have agreed to have their cats on display for the afternoon. The most recent one had twenty-nine stops and forty-one cats.

You collect a map at Little Fernwood and go at your own pace. Cats appear in windows, in catios and on leashes in front gardens, their people standing by to tell you the cat’s entire life story if you give them the smallest opening. You vote for a favourite stop at the end.

It lands the same day as the Fernwood Art Stroll and the Ichigo Strawberry Market, so the whole neighbourhood is already outside. Hundreds of people came to the most recent one.

Dates move every year. Fernwood Catwalk has this year’s.

Chonks already found in Victoria

Real cats, found by real people, on the streets you are about to walk down. Every one of them started as somebody stopping to take a photo.

See the rest of them

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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