We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….?

Do link to the Ark every week!

You can find out how to board the Friday Ark at the Arkive page.

Cats

• Athenamama: Athenamama Hits the Big Time
• Catymology: Tummy Tuesday: clean your tummy!
• Blog d’Elisson: Hakuna enjoys the morning sun
• The Poor Mouth: Ted
• Texas Oasis: Catblogging – Alex is Sweet 16!
• The Conservative Cat: Catblogging: Silent Movie: Catz vs. Dogz
• Furry Paws: Yaffa Checking Out Her Roommates
• Melange: Shadow Cat and Belly Dancing
• The Scratching Post: Adrift at Sea
• stillpoint: who’s the boss?
• Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: My Shelf Runneth Over
• It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday cat blogging: Grey Feather Got Her Name
• TacJammer: Gotcha and Little Miss Chunkytux*
• Music and Cats: Feline Friday: A good place to nap
• enrevanche: Gato the Mountaineer
• KeesKennis: I will destroy and others
• Manx Mnews: HiJinxs
• Sisu: Worth two thousand words and Moveable Feasts
• Elms in the Yard: Tuxedos
• Val’s Bien: Computer Trouble
• anniemiz: Friday Cat Blogging: Stuck In Neutral
• Rurality: Ginger the cavecat
• Lisa Violet’s Diary: It’s Tummy Tuesday #26!: Georgie
• xenogere /strange behavior/: A moment of Loki zen
• The Wide Awake Cafe: A Rough Night for Captain
• composite drawlings: Friday Catblog: SnuggleUpagus
• Stereophilia: Rule #1 for Peaceful Coexistence and No, You Apologize
• Leslie’s Omnibus: Traveling Companions: The Divine Miss Marilyn hopesit is warmer where you are…
• Mind of Mog: Tongue ‘n Toes Thursday #5 Meowza and Izzy
• Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Paz, Phil; Sammy and Frankie
• Jelly Pizza:
  Jelly Pizza: Two For The Ark…
• Prophet or Madman: Friday Pet Blogging: Morning Otis
• willow’s cat blog: Fashion Friday
• China Cat’s blog: Fashion Friday
• Dohiyi Mir: Friday Samblogging
• Purrchance To Dream: Good Ear: Rated MC-17
• Delectatio Morosa: Friday Cat Blog: Ol’ Bald Belly
• Bad Kitty Cats: Friday Cat Blogging #122 For Baby
• The Calico Girls: Cold Spell
• First Draft: Early Friday Cat Blogging – Geaux Saints!!!
• Pet’s Garden Blog: Photo Friday ~ Fast
• Chase: Cat Tree
• The Yellow Doggerel Democrat: Friday Bob Dylan Blogging: Samantha says Everybody Must Get Stoned …
• IMAO: Friday Catblogging: Nardo the Zen Archer
• Middle Fork: Sabaki Laps It Up yet again,…
• The Cutting Edge: Catblogging, first time: Spotts boarded 1/20
• Maggie’s Meanderings: Maggie boarded 1/20
• Meditation Matters: Friday Cat Blogging: Sox boarded 1/20
• Lawyers, Guns and Money: Friday Cat Blogging: Starbuck boarded 1/20
• Luxor: Friday Cat Blogging! About Pictures & Such… boarded 1/20
• No Capital: Tistablogging boarded 1/20
• masak-masak: Weekend Cat Blogging (WCB) 85: A stray cat… boaded 1/21
• Edsel/The Pooch: stayin’ warm boarded 1/21
• Derby, The Sassy Cat: Nose Prints boarded 1/21
• enrevanche: Carnival of the Cats #148

Birds

• A DC Birding Blog: Thursday Gull Trio
• 10,000 Birds: Owl-less as Ever
• Sisu: Female Cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis
• 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: Friday Creature: Tricolored Heron? What do you think?
• Happening Here: Friday bird blogging: Wild things in the city boarded 1/20
• Mike’s Birding & Digiscoping Blog: Birds along the Road boarded 1/20
• Rob’s Idaho Perspective: Boise River Birdwatching boarded 1/21

Dogs

• Coyote Mercury: Weekend Hound Blogging: Holding Down the Couch
• Gus The Blue Heeler: I still can’t figure this out
• Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog: Sasha and Dexter interacted with the sun, shade and shadow
• Val’s Bien: Beauty Treatment
• composite drawlings: Dogblog: Clyde Anxiety
• Athenamama: Angel
  Gets Groomed
• The Dogs Breakfast: Photo Friday: Fast – 45 MPH Couch Potatoes
• Collective Sigh: Friday Doggie BloggingPippin The Grandpuppy
• Pop Culture Gadabout: Weekend Pet Pic: Kyan Pup on the couch; boarded 1/20
• Karen Shanley: Three Musketeers boarded 1/20
• Maggie’s Meanderings: that didn’t take long…. Roxie boarded 1/20
• The Agitator: Last Sunday Evening Dog Blogging boarded 1/20
• Bucket O’ Bulletz: A boy and his dog boarded 1/21

Other Vertebrates

• Blog d’Elisson: Our New Pet: Plissken, the snake
• KeesKennis: To my eye this is not right and Wrong address – Catfish
• xenogere /strange behavior/: One in the tree
• First Draft: Friday Ferret and Deer Blogging
• Earth, Wind & Water: Squint…to make out a Pygmy Seahorse, Hippocampus denise
• Cleek: Hi, I’m Cute! Arctic Fox
• Creek Running North: Out back this morning: Rabbit boarded 01/20
• Photos and Pursuits: Wild boarded 01/20

Invertebrates

• KeesKennis: Moths – Outside my office
• Pharyngula: After the sex, the babies
• The Daily Kos: Marine Life Series: Oyster Drills
• Ontogeny: Friday Ant Zen… TGIF…with ants! (Amblyopone oregonensis) boarded 1/20

In Memoriam

• Bad Kitty Cats: Baby Is Gone… Our Hearts Are Broken: Echo Baby Sauriol October 26, 1988 to January 15, 2007

Didn’t Make It

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Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

• Catcall: Friday Catblogging: The missing wedding ring How can Laurence be an exception? No pic.

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings. Also, there are more doggies at Weekend Dog Blogging hosted this weekend by Sweetnicks.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 147th edition, 1/14, is up at Pet’s Garden Blog. The 148th edition will be hosted by Enrevanche on 1/21. There are more weekly cats at Weekend Cat Blogging hosted on 1/20-21 by Cat Blogosphere . Do go shout out at The Catbloggers Frappr Map.

Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. The 40th edition is up and hosted by Peregrine’s Bird Blog. The 41st edition will be hosted on 1/25 by Snail’s Eye View.

For the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The 16th edition is up at The force that through…. The 16th edition will be hosted at the end of January by The Voltage Gate.

For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page, The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Note for Haloscan Users:

Over the past month or so Haloscan started (the end of July) handling of trackbacks has improved though it is still pretty broken for carnival type posts. Now, instead of rejecting every attempt to ping it accepts single pings for a while and then will start rejecting them. I will keep trying to track back to Haloscan boarders but can make no guarantees for any particular week.

Note for Typepad Users:

Typepad continues to behave similar to Haloscan for trackbacks. I been able to get trackbacks to most, if not all, Typepad based boarders. I have to do it one at a time and wait a while in between pings but Typepad does not go into semi-permanent rejection mode like Haloscan.