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🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States

Cat Walk Portland

A free window-cat stroll from For Paws PDX, run in memory of a cat called Pickles.

WhenAugustlast held 8 August 2026
FormatSelf-guidedfree to attend
StartsFor Paws PDX, Portland OR
Run bySweet Pickles Designs

Portland’s second cat walk is a self-guided one for window cats specifically: the ones who spend the day watching the street from a sill, and who are, if we are honest, the reason anybody looks in windows at all.

You start at For Paws PDX and collect a printed map, then find the participating cats from the pavement, with a little about each one as you go. Sweet Pickles Designs runs it in memory of Pickles, and donations go to the CAT Adoption Team.

Free to walk, and pointedly a sidewalk affair. Nobody knocks on a door and no cat is handled.

Dates move every year. Sweet Pickles Designs has this year’s.

Nobody has caught a cat in Portland 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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Free, and no sign-up. Please do not pick up anybody’s cat.

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